Word: kongo
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...late, Japan's changing society has posed a challenge for Kongo. Revenues are down 35% from 1998, to about $68 million. "In the past, no matter how hard times were, people always contributed to temples, so we had work," Masakazu says. Today "temples no longer have that significance." So the family repertoire has expanded to include schools and retirement homes...
Construction of Shitennoji, one of the oldest Buddhist complexes in Japan, began in the year 593. One of its carpenters, Shigemitsu Kongo, traveled to Japan from the Korean kingdom of Paekche. Today, working from offices overlooking the temple, Kongo Gumi Co. is run by Masakazu Kongo, 55, the 40th Kongo to lead the 1,410-year-old company, believed to be the world's oldest family enterprise...