Hiroko’s Diary

It’s difficult to talk about religion. What I mean ‘difficult’ here is that people don’t talk about religion in everyday life especially in Japan, therfore it’s difficult to talk about it with my friends or even family members. I think quite a few Japanese people don’t have any religion that they really believe in.

I was one of them. But as I wrote the prior article in my blog, since I experienced the very valuable worship in "Jodosyuu" and learned about the profound religious thinking, I now started to study about Buddhism more thoroughly.

As I study English at church once a week, I learn about Christianity and I’m interested in learning about it. As a matter of fact, I have been interested in Christianity since I studied English literature at University. I knew that I couldn’t study English literature without knowing about Christianity. But unfortunately, that religion was above my head at that time and had been so until recently.

Fortunately, I’ve got a chance to study about the two religions. There are so many things that I don’t know. It means that there are so many things that I can study from now on. I’m very happy about that.