Answer :

Most Japanese recognize themselves as Buddhist and Shintoist at the same time and visit both temples and shrines. In essence, the Japanese are polytheists.

The traditional folk religion known as Shinto reveres and worships the spirits of the natural world. Shinto weddings and Buddhist burials seem to be the norm for the majority of average Japanese people. Buddhism first into Japanese territory sometime in the sixth century, when Japanese cultures and customs were being assimilated. Buddhism and Shinto, the Japanese people's primary religions, did not dispute as much as they did in the past.

The two religions did not become officially independent until the 19th century, but there had already been a fusion of the two in terms of practices and symbols in Japan.

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