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Japan remains one of the most secular nations in the world according to the World Values Survey. Christianity in Japan is spread among many denominational affiliations. In the early 2000s, 70 percent of Japanese churches had an average attendance of less than 50, though membership was often almost double this figure. [32]
It is one of the fastest growing Christian bodies in Japan, having increased its membership from 34,477 in 1970 to 433,108 at the end of the 1980s. At the outset of the 1980s, the vernacular “Christian yearbook” ceased adding its membership figures to the total Christian population.
Protestants in Japan constitute a religious minority of about 0.45% of total population or 600,000 people in 2020 [1] (see Protestantism by country).. All major traditional Protestant denominations are present in the country, including Baptists, Pentecostals, Lutherans, Anglicanism, [2] Methodists, Presbyterians, [3] Mennonites, [4] the Salvation Army and some others.
Christianity was introduced to Japan by the Jesuits, such as the Spaniard St. Francis Xavier and the Italian Alessandro Valignano. Portuguese Catholics founded the port of Nagasaki , considered at its founding to be an important Christian center in the Far East , though this distinction is now obsolete.
The Christian Century in Japan. 3rd edition. Manchester: Carcanet, 1993. Murai ShÅsuke y “Tanegashima: The Arrival of Europe in Japan”. Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese Studies 8: 93–106 2004. Fujita, Neil. Japan’s Encounter with Christianity: The Catholic Mission in Pre-modern Japan New York: Paulist Press 1991.
Christian youth under 15 were the same as the 27% global average. But an even higher percentage of Muslims (34%) were younger than 15. This higher youth population is one of the reasons that from 2010 to 2050 Muslims are projected to grow faster than Christians. Size of old population. In 2010, "11% of the world's population was at least 60 ...
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Christianity in Japan by prefecture (5 C) * Japanese Christians (16 C, 89 P) A. Anti-Christian sentiment in Japan (1 C, 11 P) C. Christian clergy in Japan (2 C)