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== == The main religion of Japan is Shintoism, which is more accurately described as being a way of living an harmonious life rather than a religion. The second largest religion in Japan is Buddhism, which exists in a slightly different from than elsewhere e.g. Buddhist monks may be married. There a number of different religions in Japan, and it is unusually difficult to come up with percentages of the population that follow each because many followers of Shinto and Buddhism follow both or various aspects of each.

Hence the best figures available are that between 84% and 96% are followers of either Shinto or Buddhism, or both to varying degrees; while 4 to 16% follow other beliefs, with Bahai and Christianity being the most common. There is also a small population of Hindus, Muslims, Jews, Sikhs and followers of the Ryukuan religion. There have been Jews in Japan since 1835, and though the nation was allied to Germany during WW2, Japan never accepted the Nazi's recommendations to instigate a "final solution" of their own.

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