Retirement Benefit Plans - Assumed Healthcare Trend Rates (Details) - Postretirement Medical Benefits	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2022	Dec. 31, 2021
Defined Benefit Plan, Plan Assets, Category [Line Items]
Rate to which the cost trend rate is assumed to decline (the ultimate trend rate)	4.00%	4.00%
Year that the rate reaches the ultimate trend rate	2045	2045
Healthcare cost trend rate assumption for the next year Pre-65
Defined Benefit Plan, Plan Assets, Category [Line Items]
Healthcare cost trend rate assumption	5.30%	5.40%
Healthcare cost trend rate assumption for the next year Post-65
Defined Benefit Plan, Plan Assets, Category [Line Items]
Healthcare cost trend rate assumption	5.80%	5.90%

Assumed rate, for next fiscal year, based on annual change in cost of health care cost benefits used to measure expected cost of benefits covered by defined benefit postretirement plan. Factors include, but are not limited to, estimate of health care inflation, change in health care utilization or delivery pattern, technological advances, and change in health status of participant. Excludes factors for change in composition of plan population by age and dependency status.

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