Building Life

billion operations of scientific calculations in one second flat. At this rate, it is 25 percent faster than the fastest American computer. Besides its perfect performance, it has another speciality: its relative cheapness. This supercomputer has a key role to play not only in scientific research, oil exploration, weather forecasting etc., but also in national security, particularly in the field of nuclear weaponry. America may have destroyed Japan in 1945 with its ‘super bomb,’ but it could not take away Japan’s potential. With its computers, and now this latest supercomputers, Japan revolutionized its own economy in a mere matter of 45 years. Destruction, however massive, can never put an end to opportunities for construction. And the power of construction undoubtedly far exceeds that of destruction. TICKET TO SUCCESS In America, people who have immigrated from Asian countries are generally called Asian Americans. Most of these individuals arrived after 1965. Their current population in the U.S. is about 2%. Among them, some are Jewish, some are Buddhists, some follow Confucianism, and others belong to different religions. In America, if Asian immigrants believe that their future success depends on someone from their community