World mission Articles > World Mission > Asia > Eastern Asia > Japan Japan Read more Share Japan Share this article: Article December 2000 Articles > World Mission > Asia > Eastern Asia > Japan Japan – Spiritual void As a newly arrived English teacher in Japan, I used to ask my students what religion they belonged to. I was surprised when the responses came, ‘I am not religious’. At first I thought these young people were so absorbed in materialism that they no longer saw religion as relevant.