The reason for the extremely high percentage of both religions is that many Japanese consider themselves as both a Shintoist and a Buddhist and do not consider it a problem to belong to more than one religion.
此兩宗教如此高百份比之原因在於許多日本人同時介定自己為神道教徒及佛教徒，而他們不認為同屬多於一個宗教有問題。