Spring 2002 Earlier this year a 190-page, 4" x 6", book was published in Japanese by Seibo No Kishi-sha (Knights of the Immaculata) Catholic publishers offering a documentation of the canonization of Saint Teresa Benedicta/Edith Stein. Under the direction of Koichiro Kikama a translation was made from the ICS Publications book edited by Fr. John Sullivan, Holiness Befits Your House, A Documentation.     The book contains homilies by His Holiness Pope John Paul II; a discussion between the Jewish niece of Saint Edith, Mrs. Susanne Batzdorff, and Dr. Eugene Fisher, representative of the U.S. Bishops' Conference for relations with the Jews; as well as two contributions by Discalced Carmelite writers, viz., Fr. Steven Payne's award-winning biographical sketch about the new saint and Fr. John Sullivan's homily for a thanksgiving celebration after the canonization. ICS Publications maintains contact with Carmelite nuns in Japan who occasionally translate selected passages from St. Edith's writings to their own language using the American translation.   ICS Publications' outreach has already touched Japan in another way: in 1994 we made available the essays on prayer of a Japanese Discalced Carmelite, Fr. Augustine Ichiro Okumura. He passed on to us a slight but moving book on prayer translated by Theresa Kazue Hiraki and Albert Masaru Yamato for publication in the U.S. Following the practice of other publishers, we at ICS Publications usually refrain from divulging sales figures of the books and tapes on the Carmelite heritage that we disseminate. Still, we are glad to let this Spring 2002 installment of our "News" feature indicate we have sold well over 7,000 copies of Fr. Okumura's volume Awakening to Prayer. The book is also available worldwide, translated into a half-dozen other languages. Sample Fr. Okumura's writings by using our "Archives" link www.icspublications.org/archives/index.html. William Johnston SJ's "Preface" to Awakening to Prayer gives us a glimpse of the Japanese high regard for silent prayer captured by Fr. Okumura's reflections: "An Asian theology cannot neglect prayer or contemplation, however, and this is precisely why Fr. Okumura's book assumes great importance. Father Okumura is Japanese, born into the contemplative tradition of Japan. He is familiar with Zen and with the Buddhist tradition. Anyone who has ever lived in Japan knows that the whole atmosphere is penetrated with contemplation."