What Is Shintoism, And Christianity Shaped The Modern Japanese Culture?

All my life, my answers to questions regarding religions has been “I don’t know”. Being born and raised my first ten years of my life in Japan, I acquired many “religious” practices that the majority of the Japanese population perform, and became a cultural practice rather than a religious practice. However, I never quite understood what, where, or who God was, and assumed it was similar to like Santa Claus; someone who is everywhere and nowhere at the same time; someone who one thinks exists, but has no proof of it. As I became exposed to other monolithic religions, it conflicted with what I learned as I was raised in Japan, the idea of polytheism. In the process of attempting to resolve this conflict within myself of what religion I belong to, and who God(s) is/are, I found that it is impossible to prove whether God(s) do, or does not exist, and that we will never know. …show more content…
Through this essay, I will analyze the effect of these three different religions on the Japanese culture in the order of religions that were introduced to the Japanese culture and the characteristics of each religion that is found in the current Japanese culture as of 2017. In order to answer my prompt, I will research this subject by using reliable information found in the library database, the internet, scholarly books and articles which will be incorporated into the research paper with an open-minded attitude about every type of information, whether if I have a bias for or against an