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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JAMJOOM" data-source="post: 13649541" data-attributes="member: 398897">Religion in Japan From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  Most <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_people" target="_blank">Japanese people</a> do not exclusively identify themselves as adherents of a single religion; rather, they incorporate elements of various religions in a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncretism" target="_blank">syncretic</a> fashion<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Japan#cite_note-ReischauerJansen215-0" target="_blank">[1]</a> known as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinbutsu_sh%C5%ABg%C5%8D" target="_blank">Shinbutsu shūgō</a> (神仏習合, amalgamation of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kami" target="_blank">kami</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhahood" target="_blank">buddhas</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Installing_Japanese_character_sets" target="_blank">?</a>). Shinbutsu Shūgō officially ended with the Shinto and Buddhism Separation Order of 1886, but continues in practice. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto" target="_blank">Shinto</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_in_Japan" target="_blank">Japanese Buddhism</a> are therefore best understood not as two completely separate and competing faiths, but rather as a single, rather complex religious system.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Japan#cite_note-Scheid-1" target="_blank">[2]</a> Japan enjoys full <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_freedom" target="_blank">religious freedom</a> and minority religions such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity" target="_blank">Christianity</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam" target="_blank">Islam</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism" target="_blank">Hinduism</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikhism" target="_blank">Sikhism</a> are practiced.  Figures that state 84% to 96% of Japanese adhere to Shinto and Buddhism are not based on self-identification but come primarily from birth records, following a longstanding practice of officially associating a family line with a local <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_temples_in_Japan" target="_blank">Buddhist temple</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto_shrine" target="_blank">Shinto shrine</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Japan#cite_note-2" target="_blank">[3]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Japan#cite_note-state-3" target="_blank">[4]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Japan#cite_note-4" target="_blank">[5]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Japan#cite_note-cia-5" target="_blank">[6]</a> About 70% of Japanese profess no religious membership,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Japan#cite_note-6" target="_blank">[7]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Japan#cite_note-7" target="_blank">[8]</a> according to Johnstone (1993:323), 84% of the Japanese claim no personal religion. In census questionnaires, less than 15% reported any formal religious affiliation by 2000.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Japan#cite_note-8" target="_blank">[9]</a> And according to Demerath (2001:138), 41% do not believe in God, and 55% do not believe in Buddha.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Japan#cite_note-9" target="_blank">[10]</a> According to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_O._Reischauer" target="_blank">Edwin Reischauer</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marius_Jansen" target="_blank">Marius Jansen</a>, some 70–80% of the Japanese regularly tell pollsters they do not consider themselves believers in any religion.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Japan#cite_note-ReischauerJansen215-0" target="_blank">[1]</a> Japanese streets are decorated on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanabata" target="_blank">Tanabata</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obon" target="_blank">Obon</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas" target="_blank">Christmas</a>.</blockquote>

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