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Overall, you're right: Tokyo is virtually a concrete jungle, with trees and greenery too few and far between. Yet there are some ("ANY") examples, weak though they may be, of city-level efforts to inject some nature in the urban gray that you can't totally dismiss:
Yoyogi Park,
Yoyogi Park
Meiji-jingu Garden
Shinjuku Garden,
and, to a lesser extent, Ueno Park.
And an aerial view of Tokyo shows that it is not altogether barren of greenery (click on "Satellite" to view the image more clearly.)
If I were going to mount a "religious/non-religious" theory of environmental relations, Japanese agnosticism is not what would inspire me.
Rather than, or perhaps in addition to, "agnostic", I would say "non-monotheistic" and "non-dogmatic". There is plenty of "theism" in Japan, if only the polytheistic/animistic/pantheistic kind. Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.
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