Japan

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Japan
country profile
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geography

• 233,600 square km

3
population

• Population 127,333,002 (UK60,094,648 )
• Density 340 per square km (UK 245 per square
  km)

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religion

• Buddhist Shinto 69.61
• New religions 24.43
• Non-religious/other 4.28
• Christian 1.56
• Muslim 0.12 statistics Operation World

Most people follow a mixture of Shinto and
Buddhist customs
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history

• Ancient civilisation
• Closed to outsiders
• Late-1800s expansion
• Defeated at end of second world war occupied by
  UN/US
• Post-war economic growth
• Economic slow-down in 1990s
• Current problems government debt and ageing
  population