ABSTRACT
Since the abolition of State Shinto in 1945, religion has not involved any political or social tensions and as a result is not much raised in the considerable literature on the problems of the Korean community in Japan. It retains, however, some social importance as a component in the cultural heritage that the community tries to preserve. Reasons for the lack of tension in this field stem in the broadest sense from the general East Asian tradition of approaching religion in a syncretic mode, rather than in the dogmatic or polemic mode traditional in the West and much of Islam. A more specific reason is that the religious traditions of the Korea and the Japan are quite similar, enabling good mutual comprehension and occasional communion between them. Christianity has made a big impact in Korea, beginning from the disturbed times towards the end of the monarchy.
