Japanese religion
Japanese indigenous religion, Shinto, has no founder or written doctrine
and places a great emphasis on ancestor and nature worship.
and places a great emphasis on ancestor and nature worship.
Japanese with no strong religious beliefs as traditional customs handed down
from our ancestors, This has developed great tolerance for other religions.
The other Japanese major religion, Buddhism, has founder, but he was a human,
not the absolute, almighty god as that of Christianity or Islam.
This has also contributed to Japanese tolerance toward other religions.
Those are the reasons why Japanese religious orientation is eclectic.