What Lawrence Browne had said in Yokohama
Lawrence is a classmate of Professor Kevin Mark of Meiji University.
He met Kevin at Yokohama International School in third grade at the age of 9.
Later both went to England and became students, met again at spiritual gathering and once more in Cathay Pacific airline where Lawrence had to move from the first class overbooked to Economy where he will sit right next to Kevin.
I had a chance to meet him once before through Kevin. I showed him his old office building of Butterfield and Swire in Yamashitacho, today Soka Gakkai use it for their Toda Peace Memorial Museum. His father was the branch manager when he was in YIS and later moved to Hong Kong and London where he became the chairman.
We spent the tour of Yokohama Foreign Cemetery to Motomachi to China town.
There are many things he had taught me and some I would like to share.
He married to a Chinese in Australia and has a daughter and he had taught English teachers in Korea through the Ministry of Education of Korea.
There are many things he had taught me but two I remember now, they are:
1)Koreans are known for Shamanism like Okinawa and many of them became evangelical Christians, so churches are not organized by denominational group. In Korea there 40% Christians and 40% Buddhists. Why they became Christians were the fact in colonial Korea Christians w ere helping the natives and as America won the war, it became a symbol of success and winner.
Korean Buddhism is only one denomination of Zen.
2) He thinks China should be broken down to four or more nations; it would work better. He is very much concerned of air pollution of China and also Korea. He thinks Korea could clean the air but not doing it. He thinks cleaning air is the symbol of "developed" nation and Japan is one of them. They can clean the air but not doing it.
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