ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the way young adults evaluate their place in the status hierarchy of Japanese society and how it has changed since the mid-1990s. It focuses on the significance of dropping out of conventional life game, not on religion itself. The chapter focuses on religiosity in terms of whether young people have a religious mindset rather than whether they believe in a specific religion. Then the chapter also analyzes this mindset's relationship with status identity. Present-orientation is an attitude that emphasizes enjoying the present rather than striving towards the future. It has been argued that young people in the 2010s feel happiness by emphasizing the “now” rather than the future. Young people find it demoralizing to focus on goals they have little chance of reaching.
