For those of you keeping up on religious dimensions of COVID19, enjoy this update from JAL. They've painted the belly of one of their planes with a reproduction of the Tokugawa-era woodblock picture of an amabie, the mythical creature that protects against epidemic: https://twitter.com/JAL_Official_jp/status/1301807718655766528
Intriguingly, if you follow the first hashtag in the tweet, for #お願いを込めて- to request, in a beseeching way - you'll see appeals that invoke or evoke the divine. Not much of a stretch to suggest that the JAL plane is basically a flying votive tablet...
And this is horn-tooting, but WOW is JAL affirming points @jolyonbt, @AikeRots, Chika Watanabe, and I make in our article on why religion scholars need to study the corporate form: https://academic.oup.com/jaar/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jaarel/lfaa041/5879710?searchresult=1
Why Scholars of Religion Must Investigate the Corporate Form

Abstract. A growing body of research describes connections between religion and economic activity through the language of commodification and marketization. Al

https://academic.oup.com/jaar/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jaarel/lfaa041/5879710?searchresult=1
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