Recalling my past, my time in Japan, there is need for one confession.
There was this time, during a tour with my host family, we visited a Japanese traditional house or temple. There was also a reporter, interviewing whom I believe are those us from Malaysia music touring Japan, or perhaps just for the news on the house's visitors.
They have this tradition, where you write your wish down on a paper, say a prayer, and throw it in this wishing box. Which was what I was told. Now I have clear conscience to this day that it is just a sort of wishing well. One needs not take it superstitiously, as many tourists who throw wishes in one form or another around the world don't. It is more of leaving souvenir markings.
I had written something down on the wishing paper (I think it was about getting good grades), and throw it into their wish box. Believing whatever my prayer was, it was to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and no other.
When I was first notified of how it was on the news, and being accused of guilt, my first thought was on 1 Corinthians 8. That I shouldn't have done it not because it shows that I was doing idolatry, but solely because the weak in faith would not be able to discern the truth of my action and misunderstood it as idolatry. That even if eating food offered to idols isn't sinful, but if this would cause new believers to all, thinking that we are serving two or more gods, eventhough it is not the case, we should, for the sake and love of our dear brethren, not eat the food.
So no, I do not believe I was wrong there. However, I was wrong in the content of the wish. It was selfish. Though I was baptized and had knowledge of Christianity, I do not believe I was saved, not until 2003 when I began my journey by going to the STEMI summer theological seminary. But that is another story.
What I should have written in Japan, even though it would not be read by anyone, much less the media, was "May there be Christians revealed in Japan, Amen".