Here is an excerpt from a Japan Times story about a death-row inmate in Japan who's verdict was overturned after 50 years.



It contains a powerful witness how different Jesus is from Buddha



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The abyss was never far away, but the closest Menda came to walking over the edge was when his Buddhist chaplain told him to accept his fate.



"I asked him why, and he said because Buddhist teaching says, 'As a man sows, so shall he reap.' He told me that it was decided in my previous life that I was to be executed, and that unless I accept what was handed to me, my parents, siblings, friends and acquaintances would not be saved."



Instead, Menda converted to Christianity and began reading the Bible and translating books into Braille, a hobby that sustained him through the years of solitary confinement.



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read the rest at



http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20070408x2.html