Word: shintoist
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...Japanese born in China, raised a Christian in a predominantly Shintoist-Buddhist country, married to a woman whose father was Russian, Ozawa has had a divided life, symbolizing on many levels the duality that every Japanese musician in the West faces. "Sometimes I say, 'Why I become Western music musician?' " he muses in the film. "I think that made my life much more interesting, and much more exciting. Of course, I have to pay price...
...Christian concept of a universal God simply does not mesh with being Japanese. Indeed, many Japanese seem less interested in defining themselves as even Buddhist or Shintoist than in finding the "spirit" of being Japanese. "The real quest is to find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a beautiful flower," says Shigenori Kameoka, director of the Shinto Moral Training Society. "To be a good person, yes. But in order to be one, to be a good Japanese." -By Richard N. Ostling. Reported by Alan Tansman/Tokyo
...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...
After a rigorous examination in Jewish law, circumcision (eased with local anesthesia), and a symbolic cleansing immersion in a pool, ex-Shintoist Kotsuji last week became a full-fledged Jew with (as one rabbi put it) "all its rights and all its troubles...