Abstract
During the last one hundred years, Japanese culture has experienced great change, because of acculturation with modern Western culture. In spite of this, Japanese religions and other indigenous cultural institutions have resisted this change. This lag was caused apparently by the confusion of the two elements, Westernization and modernization. Western culture, consisting of these two elements, came in as an integrated force, namely, modern Western culture. Because of this confusion, Japanese religions have resisted modernization because they had to resist Westernization. But, now, present-day Japan is gradually reaching the stage of being able to recognize this difference. Hereafter, Japanese religions will make rapid steps toward modernization, without losing their own indigenous cultural traits. S. RADHAKRISHNAN
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