Editing Ryuho Okawa (section)

===Education===
In 1975, Okawa failed the entrance exam for Tokyo University. After studying for a year, he was accepted into the university's Liberal Arts Division. During his first year, he was not socially adjusted. He said he once wrote love letters to a girl, but was rejected.<ref name=astley1995p345 /> He felt uncomfortable amongst the students who were uninterested in spirituality.<ref name=fukui2004p64 /> During his second year, a time he calls "the first stage in the 'awakening of wisdom{{'"}},<ref name=astley1995p345 /> he modeled his daily schedule after that of [[Immanuel Kant]], whom he respected deeply. At 3 pm, he would take a walk while writing poetry. At 5 pm, he would go to the local bathhouse and stay there for an hour thinking about his day. Going home, he would have a cheap meal, and buy two books at a local bookstore. From 8:30 to 9 pm, he would read, then drink tea, and then read philosophy.<ref name=astley1995p345 /> The philosophy he read included those of Plato and [[Kitaro Nishida]].<ref name=fukui2004p64 />

In April 1978, after his second year at university, he majored in politics and studied at the Faculty of Law. After his third year, he paused his studies for a year. At the end of the break, he failed a judicial exam and the exam for higher-level civil servants.<ref name=astley1995p345 /> In his fourth and last year, his interests started to change from philosophy to metaphysics. He read the works of [[Shinji Takahashi (religious leader) |Shinji Takahashi]] of GLA and [[Masaharu Taniguchi]] of Seicho-no-Ie.<ref name=fukui2004p64 /> He accepted a job offer from {{ill|TOMEN Corporation|ja|トーメン}} (now [[Toyota Tsusho]]), a major Japanese trading company, because his grades were not sufficient for graduate school.<ref name=astley1995p345 /><ref name=fukui2004p66 /> After graduating in spring 1981, he took up his job. He was assigned to the foreign exchange department at the headquarters in Tokyo.<ref name=astley1995p345 />