Historically, many Japanese had been Buddhists and very religious. In modern days, however, Japanese are known as the people indifferent to religions. Only when they attend a funeral rite do they become "religious." Namely, they don't have a steady religion. This is the situation which we must feel apprehensive about. What is desired to be accepted is that all Japanese should have a religion. There are two reasons for this. .
First, Japanese can be unreligious only because the circumstances in Japan are unusual. In Japan, "religions" seems to mean "religious organizations." Hence, even the tenet that to get involved with religions is not beneficial has recently come out. Outside Japan, however, religions are regarded as relations with what is beyond human beings and their society. Therefore, the Japanese are thought to be terrible people who don't have any constraints of morality and any guiding principles in their lives when they say they do not have a religion. Some might say that Japanese, who are irreligious, are always able to keep away from conflicts. Nevertheless, this assertion is already a religious one. Anyway, it must be understood that the circumstances in Japan where to be aware of religions is not needed is discriminative. It is because the Japanese has not had to be conscious of the principles of their own behavior that they can live without being conscious of religions. However, common ethnic groups had to disambiguate their way of living in disasters such as extraordinary natural phenomenon, and under the coexistence with other ethnogenesises. Apparently, many Japanese inwardly conceive that Japan, where religions don't exist, is wonderful. However, irresponsible irreligion sometime brings harm without fail, as the "Aum shinri cult" has created terrible incidents.
Second, more importantly, a human can be "a human" only when he has a religion. For example, when someone goes to Arab, a column in which his religion has to be written is on the immigration check card.
