Japan's Cities, Towns & Villages
BB writes that God answered their team’s prayer at morning devotions for “Divine Appointments” at two different temporary housing areas. As the team finished passing out gifts and heating apple juice for the residents to drink and to have a time of fellowship, a young single mom approached and began to share how she had [...]
What’s in a cup! Well a lot can be in a cup. Tea, coffee, even HOPE for the future. Mrs. Oga went back to the place where her home had been before the tsunami. She dug through the silt and mud and as she did she found five of her fine china cups buried deep [...]
Takamatsu (tah-kah-mah-tsoo) is the doorway to Shikoku Island from central Honshu. Located in central Kagawa Prefecture it is the smallest of Japan’s four main islands. A port city on the Seto Inland Sea, it is connected to the main island of Honshu by the Great Seto Bridge. With the opening of the bridge, for the [...]
Toyama city is an isolated city on the Japan Sea side, but God is working there. A mother/daughter team came to Tohoku as volunteers and God put them on a team with a young Christian girl who was able to share her faith in Christ. The two girls exchanged emails and the young Japanese girl [...]
What’s in a name? A Lot!! A starfish divides and multiplies, and so did Team Starfish who came to serve in Tohoku. They were FLUID not just flexible. A team of ten, they planned and executed an American Event on Sunday, September 11, the sixth anniversary of the triple disaster in Japan. There were only [...]
What can be more distressing than losing your husband, your parents, your home and your job in a tsunami??? It would be difficult to think of something that could drag one further into grief that that but to a Japanese lady who had lost her husband and parents, home and job, yet was beginning to look toward [...]
One of my (RR’s) favorite things about tsunami relief was working alongside Japanese volunteers. I met Japanese who are now living in America, Germany, and Scotland. I met Japanese from Kobe, Niigata, Osaka, Nara, Tokyo, and Toyama. Whether it was during the morning meetings, a bus ride, working at the site, or visiting the volunteer [...]
As I sit at my desk, sipping my coffee and reading my Bible, I am reminded of the time spent in Sapporo in July. I bought my coffee cup from a Starbucks in Sapporo train station.There is a picture of the Sapporo clock tower on it with the name of the city in English and Kanji. [...]
During my time in Tohoku we visited several places. One in particular really stood out to me. The town of Otsuchi was 80-90% destroyed. What was not destroyed in the earthquake or tsunami was destroyed in a fire which followed the disasters. My first day in that area was at the base of a mountain. [...]
This past Sunday five new Christians followed the Lord in baptism in Togane!!! Afterwards there was lots of rolled sushi and chicken to eat. It was a great time of fellowship as the body had a meal together. It was lively to say the least with lots of children. But, what a blessed time. Two [...]
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