12-11-2015, 09:50 AM
Well, I clicked the wrong one. Good for me not following directions. 
In all seriousness, the numbers in this are questionable. What the authors on this also fail to mention is that Japanese culture, as Benton pointed out, doesn't much deal with religion, especially not western ones. In fact, despite Japanese employment laws, it is a well known secret that Christian employees are expected to work on days like Christmas and Easter and conform to the norms of the culture. Religious discrimination extends to all of the Abrahamic faiths in Japan.
This also doesn't take into account that Japan is just not a very violent place. Violence breeds violence. When your native population doesn't engage in much violence, within or outside of its borders, it's going to be an overall less violent place and it will not draw in violence from other places, such as international terrorism.
In all seriousness, the numbers in this are questionable. What the authors on this also fail to mention is that Japanese culture, as Benton pointed out, doesn't much deal with religion, especially not western ones. In fact, despite Japanese employment laws, it is a well known secret that Christian employees are expected to work on days like Christmas and Easter and conform to the norms of the culture. Religious discrimination extends to all of the Abrahamic faiths in Japan.
This also doesn't take into account that Japan is just not a very violent place. Violence breeds violence. When your native population doesn't engage in much violence, within or outside of its borders, it's going to be an overall less violent place and it will not draw in violence from other places, such as international terrorism.
