@dustcircle
🔸Thanks for prompting thoughts:
"...one of the big problems with saying that the Japanese are ‘atheist’ is that atheism requires there to be a ‘god’ to not believe in"
"Japanese religions are somewhat unclear on the matter"
(#Japan: The Most Religious Atheist Country - Matthew Coslett )
https://blog.gaijinpot.com/japan-religious-atheist-country/

"...most Japanese think of themselves as secular..."
"Yet many values [of] traditional religions...have become part of...everyday life"
https://spice.fsi.stanford.edu/docs/japanese_religions
#SocietalOrder