page_title: Religion in Japan
section_title: Islam
hierarchical_section_title: Religion in Japan / Minor religions / Islam
caption_attribution_description: Tokyo Camii, at Shibuya-ku Tokyo Japan. Photo Edited by Photoshop. 日本語: 東京ジャーミィ。
context_page_description: Buddhism and Shintoism are the two major religions in Japan. According to the annual statistical research on religion in 2018 by the Agency for Culture Affairs, Government of Japan, 69.0 percent of the population practices Shintoism, 66.7 percent Buddhism, 1.5 percent Christianity, and 6.2 percent other religions. Total adherents exceeds 100% because many Japanese people practice both Shintoism and Buddhism. However, other surveys such as the Japanese General Social Survey and the Japanese National Character Survey find that roughly 70% of the population report that they have no religious beliefs. Most of the Japanese pray and worship ancestors and gods at Shinto shrines or at private altars, while not identifying as "Shinto" or "Shintoist" in surveys. This is because these terms have little meaning for the majority of the Japanese, or because they define membership in Shinto organizations or sects. The term "religion" itself in Japanese culture defines only organized religions. People who identify as "non-religious" in surveys actually mean that they do not belong to any religious organization, even though they may take part in Shinto rituals and worship.
context_section_description: Islam (イスラム教 Isuramukyō) in Japan is mostly represented by small immigrant communities from other parts of Asia. In 2008, Keiko Sakurai estimated that 80–90% of the Muslims in Japan were foreign-born migrants primarily from Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Iran. It has been estimated that the Muslim immigrant population amounts to 70,000–100,000 people, while the "estimated number of Japanese Muslims ranges from thousands to tens of thousands".
caption: Tokyo Mosque.
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