Origin from 2025
Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs, in the Reiwa 7 edition of its annual Religious Yearbook published in 2025, counted 1,121,541 Tenrikyo followers in Japan, down from a historical high of 2,298,420 recorded in 1974. The yearbook is the Japanese government's own annual registry of religious corporations and their reported membership. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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StatusEstablished marks the Japanese government's own continued registration and count of Tenrikyo as a religious corporation, not a claim about the reasons for the decline from its 1974 high, which this atlas does not investigate here. Connections
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Closes a nine year gap since 2016's Oyasama 130th Anniversary Service, moving the map from the faith's own commemorative calendar to the Japanese state's own annual count of its following.
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1. Wikipedia: Tenrikyo
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