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AMBASSADOR COLLEGE
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG, Chairman
Publisher of The PLAIN TRUTH Magazine
EXTENSION DEPARTMENT
An educational service at all levels
for all people worldwide
December 29, 1971
Dear Co-Worker in the Most
IMPORTANT Work on Earth:
What an eventful year this has been! A year ago I wrote
our family of Co-Workers that during this year of 1971, AT LAST
we were to get this vital end-time Message into JAPAN. It was
the one important nation we had not yet reached.
Well, we DID get the Work started in Japan. It is only a
start -- but the impact will increase. We are now using double-
page advertising space in the Japanese edition of Reader's Digest.
Although the magazine is printed in the Japanese language (all but
our two pages), it was even the suggestion of the Reader's Digest
people that we place our two pages in the English language. There
are important reasons for this. First, there are four daily news-
papers in Tokyo in the English language -- real full size daily
newspapers. There are not a fraction enough Americans visiting
Japan to justify the printing of these four dailies. There are
many, many Japanese who now speak English. The English language
is taught in schools and on television programs.
But the most important reason is that we need to attract
and win for the Work additional native-born Japanese who can be
used full-time in the Work before we can step up our campaign
there to a full impact. And they must be English speaking
Japanese. We shall need to issue a PLAIN TRUTH and a TOMORROW'S
WORLD in the Japanese language. That will require a staff of
English speaking Japanese with good education, for translating,
handling mail, etc., etc.
In Japan it is necessary to start at the TOP. I have now
had personal meetings with most of those at the very top -- Prince
Mikasa, brother of the Emperor, Crown Prince Akihito, Prime
Minister Sato and some of his top aides, and the leading educators.
Recently the number one educator, and chief adviser to the
government on Okinawan affairs, Dr. Nobumoto Ohama, his wife and
secretary, visited both the Pasadena and Big Sandy campuses,
and lectured before our students. Also we have made close
contacts with some of the leading industrialists. God surely
has OPENED THE IMPORTANT DOORS in Japan!
Now we have gotten the most important Message in the
world TO all the world, as a witness to ALL NATIONS, except
perhaps four or five very small nations.