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On-Yomi: シャ — Kun-Yomi: やしろ

Koohii stories:

1) [mfistik] 6-8-2007(304): When you enter a Japanese company it's like you join a cult… your workdesk becomes your altar and you worship the very soil the office is built on.

2) [Delina] 13-6-2008(54): Some Japanese companies, including Toyota, have a Shinto shrine on their grounds to bring luck and prosperity to the company and its employees.

3) [Matthew] 17-6-2006(39): If a company is built on land near the altar, it is believed that it will become successful.

4) [endote] 30-11-2010(33): The Japanese treat their company like a shrine and the company treat them like dirt.

5) [theasianpleaser] 15-11-2008(14): An altar was bulldozed and filled with soil as the foundation for a new company building.

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