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...science teachers now must teach creationism as well as evolution, which version of creationist dogma do they offer -Christian, Taoist, Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim or polytheism? Religion-based versions of creation should be given in a religion course, not in a science class...
...firms, such as Japan Airlines and Mitsui Trust Bank, new employees eagerly submit to unusual initiations. One Tokyo retailing firm dispatched its group of newcomers for a midwinter swim on the northern island of Hokkaido to tone up their selfdiscipline. Matsushita workers, by contrast, are sent to a Zen Buddhist temple for three-day retreats. In most Japanese companies the new workers, their parents and other relatives attend a ceremony at which the president welcomes the newcomers to the firm...
Catholicism was first brought to Japan in 1549 by the Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier. It swiftly took root in a few places among the Buddhist Japanese. By 1600 there were nearly 300,000 converts. But the church's fortunes soon ebbed. Four thousand of the new Christians were martyred in Nagasaki and elsewhere. Some were decapitated, some executed in scalding-hot springs by shoguns and local lords. The ruthless persecution continued over the centuries. Officials forced suspected believers to tread on Christian images. In some places an annual oath renouncing Christianity was obligatory. One reminder of the past...
...BEAST. Some of Japan's 700,000 Protestants protested the meeting as well. The Pope's visit, they felt, would en courage a resurgent movement to elevate Shintoism to status as a national religion. About 70 others, including left-wingers, four Japanese Catholic clergy men and some Buddhist priests, accused John Paul of consorting with a "war criminal...
...furniture, some secondhand, was provided by the I.R.C.: two double beds, three single beds, a table, a chest of drawers and seven chairs for the seven siblings. The walls are bare except for a Buddhist shrine. It is cold. The Trinhs' apartment has been getting little heat during New York City's cold winter...