Word: sanpogyo
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...rises to meet demand. Into the country's leadership vacuum has stepped an eccentric mix of charismatic characters professing to have a hot line to God or a shortcut to enlightenment. According to religious scholars, there are some 2,000 "new religions" in Japan. They include Ho No Hana Sanpogyo, which urges the worship of feet, and Life Space, a group whose leader claims that he doesn't need to eat, bathe or sleep because of his superhuman powers. He is now serving a 15-year prison sentence for murdering a follower and keeping the mummified corpse in a hotel...
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