Just going by their media, Japan is essentially a more religious country than America, which has been spiritually dead for some time now. Religion isn't about being vaguely nice to go to fluffy cloud heaven, religion is what cements your place in the grand cosmos through your connections to your ancestors, your community, and your creator. The last really popular mainstream Western media to even touch on this idea was The Lion King, in which Mufasa in the clouds spoke to Simba and held him to account for not taking up his proper place within the Circle of Life. I wouldn't describe Japan as particularly religious, but anime and the like will occasionally touch on the religious idea, the idea of the transcendent, of your place in the grander scheme of things. Things like Erwin's speech and the baby scene from Xenoblade 3 do a better job of conveying the religious ideal than anything I've seen in recent Western media.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hh8qaajIXk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5P_6QjNFL4&list=PLpVpBRIlzWuBOsVr0ZT_8BOOmj3yfIU5R
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