Emerging power power; geography, population, economy, resources, military, diplomacy and national identity. Traditionally, only great powers or superpowers have succeeded in all seven dimensions of state power. The BRICS are often cited as being emerging powers, but at varying stages of development and of varying degrees of potential. For example, Russia, which was once a superpower, is now re-emerging in some aspects of state power following the fall of the Soviet Union. China and India are emerging as potential superpowers, while Brazil is emerging as a possible great power. The term emerging power is often used to delineate the following countries: Although
Religion in Japan Chinese religions. It includes sects and reformed movements such as Ijun or Ijunism (Ryukyuan: いじゅん "Ijun"; Japanese: 違順教 "Ijunkyō"), founded in the 1970s. The Ainu religion is the indigenous belief system of the Ainu people of Hokkaido and parts of Far Eastern Russia. It is an animistic religion centered around the belief that "Kamuy" (spirits or gods) live in everything. Most Chinese people in Japan practice the Chinese folk religion (), also known as Shenism (), that is very similar to Japanese Shinto. The Chinese folk religion consists in the worship of the ethnic Chinese gods and ancestors, "shen" (神