Hiroko Yoda
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But I never thought, my parents had never thought, and I know all my friends and all the people that I know of don't see as religious activities.
It's just part of the culture.
It's what you do on New Year's Day.
You visit the temple.
Yes, that's what we do.
See, the thing is that I never realized that until I went to America as an exchange student, how unique our culture was, that our Japanese society, modern society, that it peacefully coexists with spirituality.
My book title is called Eight Million Ways to Happiness.
And I took the word eight million.
It's from the Japanese old concept.
It means eight million spiritual beings.
Then eight million here doesn't mean it's exact number.
It simply means
Or many.
Right.
Anyway, it's an old concept.
In old times, Japanese people thought that everything has a,
Had a spirit.
The sun, the ocean, the moon, rocks, ground, trees, even the words they spoke.
And that concept...
it's still pretty much active today.