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We have now gotten this vital message into all North America,
Central and South America, Europe, the Middle East including the
Arab world, Russia and the Russian satellite countries, India,
China, southeast Asia, northern, central, and southern Africa,
Australia, New Zealand, the West Indies. ALL BUT JAPAN!
Japan has about twice as many people as England. Several
times more than Australia, New Zealand, Canada or South Africa.
Half as many as the United States.
Industrially and economically it has now gone ahead of Russia,
Britain, France, Germany, Italy -- or ANY other country on earth!
It is now the second largest producer of automobiles, and number
one in shipbuilding.
Is the Almighty God back of this Work? Is this HIS Work?
A few years ago a man from Japan was walking along South
Orange Grove Boulevard in Pasadena. He saw the beautiful
Ambassador College campus. He was impressed and asked to go
through and see the campus and buildings. He enrolled at the
English campus.
Was he the man? No. But he wrote a friend in Japan about
Ambassador College. We did not know this. We just knew he did
not fill the qualifications.
His friend came to Pasadena from Tokyo. He enrolled. He was
a married man, but not too old to study and do university level
work in America. After he had been here a while, I learned that
he was an experienced speaker on Japanese radio stations. While
studying at Ambassador he started doing part-time work translating
our booklets into Japanese. We set him up with a Japanese
secretary to assist in the translation.
Now, at last, he is ready. At last we have sufficient
literature translated to offer radio listeners in Japan. Now we
are in position to publish a Japanese language edition of The PLAIN
TRUTH or TOMORROW'S WORLD.
But, most important, this man from Japan has been converted
and baptized! He not only believes in Jesus, the Christ, he
BELIEVES CHRIST -- that is, with us, he believes what Christ SAID
-- His MESSAGE -- the true Gospel -- the GOOD NEWS of the KINGDOM
OF GOD -- of the soon coming world of PEACE -- the WORLD TOMORROW!
To do business in Japan, he explained to me some three or
four years ago, one must first gain recognition AT THE TOP.
Japanese custom makes it difficult if not impossible to make
contacts any higher up than one already has made. This man, Osamu
Gotoh, now head of the Japanese Department, teaching Japanese at
the college here, comes from a family prominent in Japan. He
already had a good acquaintance with Prince Mikasa, brother of the
Emperor. He is the highest up the ladder of anyone to whom one
might be presented in Japan. No one ever sees the Emperor or his
son the Crown Prince except possibly a king, queen, or president.
Prince Mikasa carries the social and ceremonial duties in Japan,