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True Father gave a Special Workshop for Japanese Woman Leaders in Kodiak, Alaska, starting August 9, 1993. Between then and November 20, 1994, he led more than 70 of these workshops at locations such as East Garden in New York, the International Training Center on Jeju Island, and the Central Training Center in Guri, Korea.
A total of 160,000 Japanese woman leaders participated. During that period, True Father provided guidance on the role of women in the restoration of Japan, and the mission and responsibility of Japan as the mother nation.
Accommodations were not always comfortable for the women. For the 25th workshop, 4,800 women stayed at a facility designed to accommodate less than 1,000.
1. True Parents do not work for the Unification Church; they work for the world, for the cosmos, and God. This means that the realm of the partner will always appear.
No matter how hard the opponent has tried to erase me, God's protection has enabled me to expand such that one day I will stand on the peak of the cosmos. Because God exists, this will surely happen.
I will go straight up, not in a zigzag. Through fulfilling a 40-year course, I stand on the substantial foundation to restore 4,000 years of history. That milestone is conveyed in the declaration “True Parents and the Completed Testament Age.”
These are not just words; they must be extended to a worldwide foundation. Just because I have proclaimed True Parents and the Completed Testament Age, can I say, “I am the True Parent, so everybody must obey me”? No. At the right time, I must teach things that are more heavenly and mysterious.
For the first time I am teaching Japanese women, and I am teaching remarkable things that I have never taught before, not even to my relatives or Korean women.
At the Special Workshop for Japanese Woman Leaders, I am connecting the mother nation with the world by teaching Japanese women the best things from the national, continental, and world levels. (255-147, 1994/03/10)
2. With 50,000 people having already participated, the special workshops are continuing. This is special
training. You are not ordinary women; you are special Japanese women. People who are here for the first time might think the title of the workshop strange, saying, “I came here for the first time. What is special training?” It is normal to think it strange if it is your first time, but it is also the first time that I have taught like this.
It has been 40 years since 195 when the church started in Korea. During this period, I have done what many have done, trained lecturers, and published books to educate the public, but there has been no workshop in history that gathered a total of 50,000 Japanese women. This has never happened in the history of Japan or the world. (256-010, 1994/03/12)
3. In the United Kingdom, Catholicism and Protestantism are fighting. We have to digest this situation by having Japan, the Eve nation, stand in a similar situation. Japan has two heterogeneous Korean associations in the position of children: Chongryon made up of those with ties to North Korea, and Mindan, those with ties to South Korea.
They are like conflicting twins, and the Eve nation, Japan, its people, and its government think badly of them. To fulfill its responsibility as the Eve nation, Japan has to give rebirth to these twins and unite them.
The time has come for this, so before finishing the Jeju Island workshop I asked the Japanese women at the workshop to take action to unite Chongryon and Mindan. (255-159, 1994/03/10)
4. Now is the time to set up international ties based on blessed families. You have to be united with Japanese families because Japan is the nation representing the women of the world. Japan and Korea have to unite.
Women of the Republic of Korea are the elder daughters. Japanese women are the younger daughters and need to inherit the tradition of the elder daughter.
Yu Gwan-sun is the only one who left her name as a fervent patriot during the period of the independence movement. Yu Gwan-sun is the representative Korean woman, so Japanese women have to follow her tradition to meet Mother.
For Japan to meet Mother, Mindan, and Chongryon must come into unity. Perez and Zerah fought each other in the womb of Tamar, who stood in the position of mother.
Japanese women, who represent the mother, have to unite them. They then have to achieve the unification of North and South Korea.
When Korean women and Japanese women, elder sisters and younger sisters, are united in the course of restoration centering on the True Mother, they create a one-way street.
Being united like this, Japanese sisters need to lead Japan, Asia, and the world. It is an honor to participate in such an inspiring age and follow the heavenly call. (231-090, 1992/05/31)
5. We need to have 20,000 churches in Japan. Our church has educated so many people but had no foundation for faith education. So all the prepared people heaven sent just passed by.
Those were the people capable of affecting the life or death of Japan. They all could have figured important in reviving the church, but we lost them, so I had to be personally involved in the work.
This victory cannot be achieved by putting men in front. Instead, women have to be in front to lead. Men have become just bystanders. Therefore, I planned this Special Workshop for 160,000 Japanese Women.
There were many benefits. This workshop was not planned ordinarily. I had to take extraordinary measures to produce this special workshop for 160,000 women. (260-201, 1994/05/19)
6. I tried to have 700 Japanese women at a time participate in the workshop in Alaska, but the airline schedules could not accommodate this. Therefore, I am trying to use Jeju Island to educate tens of thousands, to bring 2,000 people at a time, but the airline schedules cannot accommodate our needs.
If we do not prepare individuals, organizations, and nations, they will all just pass by. History is heartless. Only what fits into history remains. If you want to be a part of history, you surely have to prepare beforehand. (249-059, 1993/10/08)
7. One-third or even half of the Japanese sisters of the Unification Church who came to Jeju Island for the workshop had never met me before. I shed hidden tears, thinking, “I am a sinner.
They live in a neighboring nation, but they have never met me before because I have not visited them.” They have followed my direction and worked hard, even on rainy and snowy days, for more than 20 years under circumstances in which they were derided and persecuted.
I have to be responsible for them as their Teacher because I know all this. Therefore, I try not to live comfortably. (251-093, 1993/10/17)
8. The largest number of people who gathered on Jeju Island at one time for the workshop was 4,800. The size of the training hall was half the size of this central training center in Guri.
The size of the training hall on Jeju Island was 9,250 square feet, and the Guri training center was 21,350 square feet. They attended the workshop in such a small place. It was worse than a torture chamber.
As I started this workshop with them, I was thinking, “Nothing is impossible when you keep busy.” I had everyone squeeze together and then sit on the floor. Was there any other method? They had to stay seated.
Those conditions became such a topic of conversation. Yet, those who participated said that they would like to attend such a workshop again. This has never happened before in history.
When it was time to go to sleep, the stairs or wherever you fell asleep became a bed. It hardly mattered that they did not have a bed. Even a bathroom could suffice if you could fit a sleeping bag there and sleep in it.
They wanted to be there so badly that to them, it was better than a hotel room. Through the grapevine, people were hearing that everybody must experience Jeju Island. As a result, the number of participants increased like an avalanche. That is why I said to build a training center so that we could hold workshops there.
(260-203, 1994/05/19)
Sisterhood ceremonies
At the Special Workshops for Japanese Woman Leaders, held from October 6, 1993, to November 20, 1994, on Jeju Island and in the city of Guri in Korea, True Father emphasized exchanges between Korea and Japan and their respective providential responsibilities.
In particular, he said that Korea and Japan need to unite to store Asia and the world and teach them to love each other as siblings through the Sisterhood Ceremonies.
Father said that these ceremonies were held so that “These many heavenly sisters, binding the vast world together through their countless personal connections, can be a substantial, living example of the way to create peace.”
9. From the providential viewpoint, Japan and Korea are one nation. People generally might not like to hear this, but look at Europe. The European Economic Community turned into the European Union. Everything is becoming one.
The foundation for unity is women, not men. From this perspective, I am holding these special workshops.
This period of education is a time of great change. When participants have heart-moving experiences, they will become interested in True Parents. This is Sutaek-dong, in the city of Guri in Korea.
When they have this heartfelt experience in the Sutaek-dong Training Center, they will form a deep and unforgettable relationship with this place. In addition, this is an important opportunity to hold Sisterhood Ceremonies. There could be no better chance.
Not everyone participating in the Sisterhood Ceremony is a Unification Church member. They come from various towns in Korea. Some of them came here through the Women's Federation for World Peace.
The movement to unite the world has to start from the East, and the Sisterhood Ceremony is the only way to do it.
Korea and Japan have to keep in step with each other while they move Asia forward; otherwise, these nations cannot survive. This is the time we are in.
(255-280, 1994/03/11)
10. National-level diplomacy focuses on the nation's benefit, but a non-governmental diplomat thinks about the benefit of other nations as well. If both sides can interact on the level of principle rather than of economy, both sides will benefit.
If we look at it this way, the Sisterhood Ceremonies that the Unification Church is holding nowise a major crisis from the point of view of Satan's world.
(255-211, 1994/03/11)
11. The way for the world to open is for Japan and Korea to connect through the Sisterhood Ceremony.
Everyone wants this to happen. When this connection is actualized, powerful things will happen. It will stimulate interchanges of culture, philosophy, and resources through the comings and goings of many people.
That is why we need to hold Sisterhood Ceremonies throughout the world. If members of these connected women's families marry each other, they will become relatives. (255-212, 1994/03/11)
12. Japanese women are the restored younger sister, while Korean women are the restored elder sister.
Therefore, your Korean sisters have to teach them. At the very least you can take your younger sister who came to Korea out for lunch. You need to conduct Sisterhood Ceremonies.
In the future, you may have difficulty finding a family into which to marry your son or daughter. The sooner you do the Sisterhood Ceremony, the better the chances are that your sons and daughters can participate in a Blessing that joins the Adam nation and Eve nation, which is propitious. (253-302, 1994/01/30)
13. Korea and Japan are separated and have lived through a sorrowful history for several thousand years.
God, the universe, all things, and history have desired a moment of meeting that would bring an end to that sorrowful history. The Sisterhood Ceremony enables you to accomplish this, and nothing is more praiseworthy. Please participate with that in mind.
Non-religious women might think, “A sisterhood ceremony should be done individually. Why do you do it with several thousand women in a stadium? What's in it for us? We should not have come here.”
However, when they perform the ceremony, they get excited and hug each other happily.
That is a very hopeful moment. You have to hold these ceremonies throughout the world, even if it means we have to take a few hours away from the workshop to do it. (256-153, 1994/03/12)
14. You have to organize nationally to receive Japanese women. After receiving them, you have to unite with them. Who should stand in front, Koreans or Japanese? Koreans are the elder sister.
Koreans and Japanese were enemies in the past, but now it is not like that. Koreans have to think of the Japanese as their younger sisters living in the same house. You have to act properly, as an elder sister. For this, you
have to make a national organization immediately. (220-119, 1991/10/16)
15. When we make sisterhood relationships between Korean and Japanese women, one is Lea,h and the other is Rachel. Which is Leah, and which is Rachel?
The one born first is the older sister, and since Japan was the first to establish the Women's Federation for Peace in Asia, it took the position of Leah, the older sister. Korea was in the position of Rachel, the younger sister.
Therefore, Korean women need to restore the authority of the elder daughter. Leah and Rachel fought in Jacob's family, but now you must not fight. Leah has to put Rachel in front and unite with her, saying, “I understand your position well. I entrust everything to you.
No matter what, I will attend you.” The unity of heaven and earth starts with women, from the viewpoint of mother-son cooperation. This is a formula of the Principle. (224-193, 1991/11/24)
16. After Korean women have restored the position of the elder sister, Japanese women take the position of the younger sister. Therefore, centering on True Mother, who has the worldwide heavenly fortune in the age of restoration in the realm of Eve, Korea has to save Japan, her younger sister.
In other words, Mother has to restore Japan, which stands in the position of the second daughter, and then restore Korea in the position of the elder daughter. Mother can restore Japan as the younger daughter and thereby represent the position of the Eve nation.
Then, through bringing Japan to unite with Korea in the position of the elder daughter, Mother can lead both the elder daughter and younger daughter to the bosom of God.
The time for this has come. Japanese members and Korean members can become natural brothers and sisters, but they have to love each other above all. A divided people have met after 6,000 years, so Mother has to love the Japanese more than the Koreans. (232-032, 1992/07/01)
17. Now, I want to create the Women's Federation quickly so that North Koreans can participate in it too.
We will have meetings in Japan that include women from North Korea living in Japan. Five hundred women from South Korea and 500 from North Korea can join together in Japan and establish an integrated movement of women.
They each can take care of one family from North Korea because of North Korea's economic problems. Japanese families can give North Korean families daily necessities, such as hand-me-down clothes.
Thinking of how America aided Korea in the past, how about helping North Korea through Sisterhood Ceremonies? A foundation of one million women in Japan can connect with one million women in North Korea.
If one million women connect in that way, with each woman representing four family members, the total number of people saved will be four million.
If we repeat this cycle four or five times, we will save all 20 million people. Such connections need to be made from Japan. (219-271, 1991/10/11)
18. If 20 million women in South Korea would listen to me, 20 million people in North Korea could survive. So just open up the 38th parallel. After holding the Sisterhood Ceremony in North Korea, we can arrange for two people in South Korea to help one in the North.
It would be no problem at all. Give your rice to hungry people and your extra clothing to whoever needs it. This is better than letting them starve or freeze to death. In North Korea, people are living in great difficulty. (236-217, 1992/11/08)
19. True Parents planning to build condominiums, where people from four nations Korea, Japan, Germany, and the United States live together. These families can build a tradition.
If four such families live like that for three years, their children will speak each other's languages, even though their parents may not. Furthermore, when the children are in elementary school or middle school, they can study on their own by watching videos.
Many nations can hold Sisterhood Ceremonies, and blessed families who connect can tour the world anytime. The problems are the disconnected cultural backgrounds and languages.
Bringing cultures and languages together is necessary for building a peaceful world. (252-199, 1993/12/30)
Sun Myung Moon
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