In 2013, a national survey conducted in Japan by the highly respected American-based Pew Research Center found that 72% of the Japanese surveyed said that they did not have any personal religious faith and 68.6% said that they did not follow any religion.During the same time period, only about 20% of Americans said that they did not have any religious faith. On the other hand, 66% of those Japanese questioned on a different survey conducted in 2013 by the Japan-based Institute of statistical Mathematics, (the Japanese National Character Survey), said that spirituality was important to them, although that number had declined from 80% in 1983. PROMPT: Does this mean that Japan has become a “post-religious” society (and if so, why?), or are these surveys, which are based on Western social scientific techniques, asking the wrong questions because the Japanese define “religion” in a muchdifferent way from Euro-American society?Grading: 90-100 = A  “Performance of the student at the highest level, showing sustained excellence in meeting all course requirements and exhibiting an unusual degree of intellectual initiative.