At 09:34 PM 12/15/97 +0000, Ken wrote:

On 12/14/97, at 12:09 PM, Ranma Al'Thor wrote: 

On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, Richard Lawson wrote:

Japan now has over 200 million people?  I thought Japan only had 150
million or so at most...

Japan has a very high population.  Besides, as stated before, some

individuals may follow more than one belief system

  Japan's population is 125.9 million according to official Japanese
figures. It is growing very slowly and will start dropping within 20 years.  

                                                                          dml