Editing List of Japanese people (section)

==Religious leaders==
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* [[Dogen]]
* [[Eisai]]
* [[Kūkai]]
* [[Nakayama Miki|Miki Nakayama]]
* [[Nichiren]]
* [[Nikkō (priest)|Nikkō]]
* [[Ryōkan]]
* [[Saigyo]]
* [[Shinran]]
* [[Shoko Asahara|Asahara Shōko]]
* [[Taisen Deshimaru]]
* [[Peter Doi]]
* [[Nichidatsu Fujii]]
* [[Joseph Satoshi Fukahori]]
* [[Keido Fukushima]]
* [[Stephen Fumio Hamao]]
* [[Januarius Kyunosuke Hayasaka]]
* [[Peter Takaaki Hirayama]]
* [[Daisaku Ikeda]]
* [[Peter Baptist Tadamaro Ishigami]]
* [[Kōshū Itabashi]]
* [[Terasawa Junsei]]
* [[Petro Kasui Kibe]]
* [[Peter Magoshiro Matsuoka]]
* [[Sōyū Matsuoka]]
* [[Paulo Miki]]
* [[Joseph Atsumi Misue]]
* [[Francis Xavier Osamu Mizobe]]
* [[Magdalene of Nagasaki]]
* [[Ikurō Teshima|Teshima Ikurō]]
* [[Uchimura Kanzo]]
* [[Yoshihiko Kikuchi]]
* [[Peter Takeo Okada]]
* [[Joseph Asajiro Satowaki]]
* [[Kōdō Sawaki]]
* [[Nyogen Senzaki]]
* [[Francis Xavier Kaname Shimamoto]]
* [[Peter Shirayanagi]]
* [[Takuan Sōhō]]
* [[Shunryū Suzuki]]
* [[Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki]]
* [[Paul Yoshigoro Taguchi]]
* [[Joseph Mitsuaki Takami]]
* [[Jacobo Kyushei Tomonaga]]
* [[Mitsumyo Tottori]]
* [[Paul Tsuchihashi]]
* [[Thomas Tsugi]]
* [[Kōshō Uchiyama]]
* [[Taitetsu Unno]]
* [[Paul Hisao Yasuda]]
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