Hiroko Yoda
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But it doesn't mean that the Japanese people believe that everything surrounding us had a spirit.
It just... We feel...
The sense of it.
And it's our worldview.
It is the foundation of Japanese culture.
Yes.
When I was in high school, I spent a year as an exchange student in the United States.
And before I spent a year there, that organization, it's called YFU, Youthful Understanding, they held orientation for all the students and families.
And they gave us a sheet of paper.
to get ready for America, and including the questions that questions Americans may ask.
And also the sheet of paper provide answers.
And of course, I don't remember any of it except one.
The question was, which religion do you believe in?
And the answer for that was,
I am a Buddhist.
Was that news to you?
Yes.
It was just all of us got stunned.
All of us got silenced because we go to Buddhist temples like New Year's Day, for example.
Or like I said before, the temples and Shinto shrines are open to public.