Harmonization of the Shinto Faith

The Japanese have over time come to incorporate both the traditions of Confucius and Buddha into their own old Shinto faith, taking what they feel was the truest and best serving parts of the foreign teachings and making it their own. In many ways this has in turn made their religion easier to incorporate and harmonize with the ideology of our nation. As time goes by the Shinto identity becomes less and less of an issue and Shinto followers can be found high and low in our society, forming a new group within our complex government apparatus that an outsider would have a very hard time distinguishing from our own.