Editing Ryuho Okawa (section)

===Business career===
Okawa's life as a businessman went normally despite his alleged communication with the spirits, which he later claimed continued throughout his business career.<ref name=fukui2004p66 /> In August 1982, Okawa was sent to the company's US headquarters at the [[World Trade Center (1973–2001)|World Trade Center]] in [[New York City]] for training.<ref name=astley1995p346 /><ref name=fukui2004p66 /> He took an English course at [[Berlitz Corporation|Berlitz Language School]], and studied international finance at the [[City University of New York]].<ref name=ENRM2004p467>{{Harvnb|ENRM|2004|p=467}}</ref><ref name=profile/>{{efn|Astley (1995) says Okawa studied at [[New York University]].<ref name=astley1995p346 />}} He dropped out of university after experiencing an intensified [[inferiority complex]] from seeing a Taiwanese classmate speaking fluent English. Around this time, he said he experienced the "second stage in the 'awakening of wisdom{{'"}}.<ref name=astley1995p346 /> In 1983, he returned to Tokyo, and was assigned to work on negotiations with banks. In March 1984, he was sent to Nagoya. He claimed that by the summer of 1985, he had read over four thousand books, which he claimed made him superior to everyone else.<ref name=astley1995p346 /> 

Okawa claimed he got a reputation in his company for talking about spirits and calling people possessed. In June 1986, he left his business career. He attributed this to be on the advice of high spirits telling him to start a his own religion. On 15 July, he resigned from TOMEN Corporation and on October 6, founded Happy Science and adopted the name "Ryuho Okawa".<ref name=astley1995p347 /><ref name=winter2013p422 />