In Japan people are engaged in the search for terminal care that specifically addresses the current situation in this country , but medical care practitioners seem hardly at all disposed to seek cooperation from people of religion . At the root of this situation we find a narrQw conception of religion that attempts to separate from quite ordinary Japanese peopie what is broadly seen as " religion " in present − day society , and apply special significance to it . As a matter of fact , there are

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... not a few medical care practitloners who understand religion to mean having " a certain belief , " point out the tenuous conneGtion between religion and the Japanese , and evince doubts about collaboration with religion, But since ancient times the Japanese have had a Iooser relationship with re } igion , in which people combine a variety of elements from certain religions as the sustenance in their everyday lives instead Qf believing in a certain religiQn. The view of religion needed in Japan ' s terminal care should presume this tenuous relationship between the Japanese and religion , and assume a broad − based form that can take into consideration the religious sense o 〔 he Japanese, which comprises elements compounded from variou $ religion $, instead of a narrow view of religbn that suits only a mere handful of people .