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The population of from a 1996 estimate is about 125,449,703 people. The population density is of about 332 persons per sq. km or 860 people per sq. mi. About 78 percent of the people live in urban areas. has an area of 377,688 sq. km. The ese Islands extend i ....

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.... Japan is Japanese. The other languages are minority languages. The religion in Japan is made up of 85% of Shinto and/or Buddhism and the other 15% are made up of others such as Shinko Shakyo (new religions) and Christianity. People in Japan have the ethnic backgrounds of 99% Japanese. The other 1-% includes Koreans, Chinese, and Ainu. The food and drink that is eaten here is mostly rice. The drink is sake, which is a strong alcoholic beverage. Sake is the drink that is used when the people in Japan and the people who are Japanese perform a spiritual drinking ritual. The life expectancy rate is 79 years. The infant mortality rate is 4.8 per ....