My research topic

  My research topic is about Shinto's importance in Japan.  Shinto is a religion that was seen as the country's identity at one point.  The reason I said it was the face instead of is, is because Buddhism was imported into Japan around the 6th century.  Previously some of the people of Japan had thought the two religions were the same.  This led to both followers of the two religions to try and dispel the idea that the religions were the same.

  This conflict leads to various occurrences and events, these events included name calling, bloodshed, blasphemy, and the defacing of the twos' holy temples.  The main accounted movement that made such indifferences occur was during Kokugaku, where a slogan was started.  The slogan was Haibutsu Kishaku which some extremists used as an excuse to deface the other religion.  During this time the Meiji government made various moves to try and expell buddhism from Japan.  As it happens this only helped to make buddhism stronger by the end of the movement.