First off, Buddhism is not the majority religion in Japan. Naturism, or Shinto is.As for counter-examples-- (I assume you mean exemplary incidences of Buddhist badness) -- why Sri Lanka and Japan. Of course. Sri Lanka has been caught up in a protracted civil war because of the religious and ethnic intolerance of its Buddhist majority, and the large Buddhist minority in Japan were in alignment with those whom they considered to be their unofficial leaders, the military caste, the chief architects of Japan's aggression leading to its involvement in WWII. GAVIN En Lin Wei wrote: >I mentioned Sri Lanka and Japan as two countries where the > main religion is Buddhism, and where tolerance and democracy have thrived. > Can you address this with a counter example?e