The Case of Reischauer
Edwin Oldfather Reischauer (1910-1990) was attacked by a young Japanese with a knife.
But the then US Ambassador to Tokyo could survive this horrible incident of March 1964, four months after the assassination of JFK who had appointed him to the Ambassador.
However months before, he did save a young Japanese woman around a seaside house outside Tokyo where he often stayed during his holidays after he came to Tokyo as ambassador in 1961. When Reischauer was taking a walk along a path on a coastal hill, he suddenly saw a young Japanese woman tumbling down from a slope covered by woods. She cried loudly, "Help me! Save me!" As her clothes were out of order wildly, he sensed that she was being attacked by a man. So, the US Ambassador to Japan helped and saved her. A bad guy seemed to run away through a thicket. He took her to the police.
From a viewpoint of Buddhism, as Japanese-speaking Reischauer did good to the poor young woman, Heaven spared the life of Edwin Reischauer. The principle of causality surely worked for the Ambassador against the mentally-ill Japanese young man who stabbed Reischauer's thigh. .
Since President Kennedy was assassinated in the preceding year, if then US Ambassador had been killed in Tokyo, it should have given a grave shock to both the Japanese and American people at the time.
However the older brother of Edwin Reischauer, a Japanese born American professor of Asian history, was killed during battles around Shanghai before the Pearl Harbor attack. In the summer of 1937, tens of thousands of Chinese troops launched an all-out attack on far-smaller units of troops of the Empire of Japan, the US, the UK, and France stationed in the then international city Shanghai. The Chinese Army used even warplanes to bomb naval ships of Imperial Japan patrolled in a big river running through Shanghai and foreign soldiers on streets of the city. But they had no bombing accuracy. Chinese bombs dropped from the sky killed many Chinese citizens as well as foreign civilians living in the then most prosperous city in Asia.
And Robert Karl Reischauer, the older brother of Edwin Reischauer, was killed by this Chinese bombing on the street before a hotel in Shanghai on August 14, 1937.
After WWII, Edwin Reischauer became professor of Harvard University to visit Japan a few times. Then in 1956 he remarried a Japanese woman, a daughter of a prominent family of the Japanese high society. In 1961 Reischauer became US Ambassador to Japan as President Kennedy appointed him so. Reischauer left Japan in 1966, while Johnson was President, mostky because the Vietnam War was getting intensified in a manner Reischauer could not support.
Now President Obama appointed Caroline Bouvier Kennedy, the daughter of President Kennedy, to the Ambassador to Japan, tough she doesn't seem to be able to understand the Japanese language like the former Ambassador Reischauer, one of the most respected ambassadors to Japan by the Japanese people.
Local media embraced Caroline Kennedy's nomination. Boston University professor of international relations, Thomas Berger, cited three critical assets of a Kennedy ambassadorship to Japan: celebrity status, direct access to Obama and gender.
“Japanese women continue to look for role models who demonstrate that it is possible to be a woman and have a successful career in politics,” Berger told the Associated Press. “I expect that many in both the United States and in Japan will want to use her to send that message to the Japanese public.”So, Caroline Kennedy might help Japanese women in any possible way, too.
http://world.time.com/2013/08/06/tokyo-doesnt-care-who-the-u-s-ambassador-is-but-caroline-kennedy-will-do-fine/
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Luk 10:27 And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
Luk 10:28 And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.
Luk 10:29 But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?