Word: shintoist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...welfare fund, which pays handsome benefits to workers upon retirement. But Idemitsu boasts that old workers are never pressured to retire and bad ones are never fired; even chronic drunkards are merely sent to dry out for a few months in a Buddhist monastery at company expense. A devout Shintoist and emperor worshiper himself, Idemitsu keeps a shrine in his conference room for praying in spare moments, and regularly leads new employees in a ceremonial bowing toward the Imperial Palace in Tokyo...
...faithful Shintoist gets spiritual guidance and protection in his own way of life. Shinto has no known founder, no Bible, no dogma, no regular churchgoing. Japan's only major home-grown religion, it tolerates and even welcomes joint membership by Buddhists (who number 47,275,000 in Japan) and Christians (605,000), counts its own numbers vaguely a's 13,600,000 "parishioner households...