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According to the most recent census conducted in Japan in October of 2010, there are over 128 million people living in the country. Only about 1.65 million of those people are classified as foreign nationals, but a good number of them are in fact second and third generation Chinese and Korean nationals who may well speak Japanese as their first (or only) language. (1)
A 2009 study conducted at MIT estimated that 120 million people living in Japan speak Japanese. (2)
According to several different sources, there are over 1 million speakers of Japanese living outside of Japan. (3)
Source(s): (1) 2010 Japanese census results in English: http://www.stat.go.jp/english/info/news/1928.htm#p... http://www.e-stat.go.jp/SG1/estat/ListE.do?bid=000... (2) http://web.mit.edu/jpnet/articles/JapaneseLanguage... (3) http://www.aboutworldlanguages.com/Japanese/ ; http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=j... - Anonymous5 years ago
Japanese society for the period of WWII regarded all civilians to be patriotic recruits for the military and so the US used to be afraid of those persons in view that they had been going up towards an whole human race. The Ming the Merciless or Kull the Conqueror variety stereotypes. The use of the atomic bomb used to be supposed as a exhibit of force and to knock the battle lords out of vigour. The Imperial Navy not had any credibility a number of the populace. They had no option however to unconditionally give up.