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Hallow dear Guest, I am Mr. Terada. Now I am applying for the job opportunity as a Tourist Guide. I have no prior experience as a tourist guide yet, but I passed the Interpreting Guide Interpreter Examination in the year 2000 and registered the Guide License in 2005. Through that connection, I was dispatched to the Philippines as a JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) expert and spent two years there. Then I retired from the Ministry of Land Infrastructure Transport (MLIT) in 2014. Subsequently, I worked as an ODA-related consultant distributing vessels to developing countries such as Tunisia, Viet Nam, Brazil, Cambodia primarily conducting business in English as I was a licensed navigation officer on STCW convention and I had worked as a Government Technical officer in terms of ships construction. Before joining MLIT I worked worldwide on Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit (MODU) in countries as Bangladesh, Indonesia, Philippines, Soviet Union, United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Japan for 13 years. While I worked at MLIT I visited Iran, Kenya to conduct Port State Control Training and Nether Land, Germany and South Africa for ships inspection for a short time. As I stated I visited many countries, there might be your country, even if not so there is some kind of connection as you are reading this message. There is a proverb of Buddhism in Japan as “sode suriau mo, tasyo no en” which means that “Even a chance encounter is a karmic bond from the previous life”. As the saying goes, we have already connected together once you read my message. Speaking of Buddhism, there are two major religions in Japan, one is Buddhism and other is Shintoism. Let me explain briefly those two major religions of Japan which is important and essential to understand Japanese culture before you come to visit Japan. After World War 2, religious freedom was guaranteed by the Japanese Constitution. Since Japan has no official religion, there is therefore no official relationship between the nation’s politics and religions. Shinto is a folk religion of Japan. Buddhism was brought into Japan in the 6th century, the two religions have influenced one another and existed together in the everyday life of the Japanese. This is called the “syncretization of Shinto and Buddhism.” Most Japanese experience both Shinto and Buddhist rituals and ceremonies in their life. For example, the same person would go to a wedding at a Shinto shrine and hold a funeral at a Buddhist temple. It is also very common to have both Shinto and Buddhist alters in a house. It is often said that Japanese tolerant attitudes toward religious were formed by the polytheistic nature of Shinto.
Example of syncretization in Tokyo is Sensoji Temple and Asakusa Shrine, those are located in the same precinct. Thank you for reading carefully to the end.
I will do my best to obtain your trust.