What is Japan's original religion?

Answer 1

Originally, the oldest folk religions of Japan differed from region to region, group to group. Shintõ was later brought to Japan by immigrant Korean settlers around 300 BCE and became the official religion of Japan. Buddhism arrived in the 6th century via Korea and competed with the imperial religion of Shintõ until it won over.

The teachings of Shintõ and Buddhism then became merged until the Meiji restoration in 1868.

Shintõ therefore is the oldest, and recognised as a native Japanese religion. Buddhism was originally from India.

Answer 2

Shintoism is the indigenous religion of Japan. Shintoism is technically a mixture of Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism, but today it is considered a religion all of its own. It is also the main religion in Japan today...

Answer 3

Shinto- meaning way of the gods.

When the Korean Emperor sent over Buddhist script and statues, Prince Shotoku accepted the gifts and decided to make Buddhism the new religion of Japan. Unlike most Emperors Prince Shotoku allowed the Japanese to keep on practicing the original (sacred) religion of Japan.

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Answer 4

The traditional religions are: Shinto and Buddhism. Japan also has Shrines dedicated to spirits.

Christianity is on the rise, it was only one percent of the population. From the Christian point of view, the spirits mentioned would be demons or evil spirits.

Even children's TV programming (Cartoons) contains evil demon and spirits many of these shows are very popular in Japan.
According to survey, Shintoism is primary religion in Japan because there are many members of it.


Shintoism 83.9%, Buddhism 71.4%, Christianity 2%, other 7.8% note: total adherents exceeds 100% because many people belong to both Shintoism and Buddhism

Answer 5

Shinto and Buddhism.

Answer 6

Shinto and Buddhism.

Answer 7

Shintoism.