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Patron Saints: Saint Peter Baptist, Saint Francis Xavier

Saints: 43 Saints, 396 Blesseds

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Continent: South and East Asia

Capital: Tokyo

Area: 364,485 km²

Population: 126,451,398

Neighbouring Countries: ↙ Taiwan , ← South Korea , ← North Korea , ← China , ↖ Russia

Religions: Shintoism 79.2%, Buddhism 66.8%, Christianity 1.5%, other 7.1%

Languages: Japanese

Ethnic Groups: Japanese 98.5%, Korean 0.5%, Chinese 0.4%, other 0.6%

Area: 377,829 km²

Catholic Population: 529,000 Catholics (0.4% of 125,682,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 850 parishes, 58 mission stations (44 with resident priest, 14 without resident priest), 35 other centres

Clergy: 26 bishops (14 diocesan, 12 titular), 1,246 priests (497 diocesan, 749 religious), 28 permanent deacons (24 diocesan, 4 religious)

Non-Clergy: 4,617 religious (137 brothers, 4,480 sisters), 176 members of secular institutes (sisters), 77 major seminarians, 2 missionaries, 1,319 catechists