TOKYO — Japan’s shinkansen, or bullet train, was the world’s first high-speed train running at 200 km per hour, and today the Tokaido Shinkansen is the world’s most used high-speed rail line. Impressively, even with over 120,000 trains running on the line each year, the average delay time is a mere 36 seconds. Part of…
Dear Praying Friends, Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate. Jeremiah 14:4 God’s great mercy toward us is marvelous! God sends us, his servants, with warnings and cautions early. He doesn’t wait until we are deep in sin’s…
Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1:13 Following the great salvation truth of verse 12 that “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that…
(TOKYO, Apr 19, 2015 BUSINESS WIRE) — Toshiba Corporation today announced the start of demonstration operation of H2One, an independent energy supply system based on renewable energy and use of hydrogen as a fuel for power generation. Kawasaki City and Toshiba have installed the system at the Kawasaki Marien public facility and Higashi-Ogishima-Naka Park…
Dear Praying Friends, Joshua 21:45 There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass. This verse marks the end of the long war of conquest of the land the Lord God had promised the children of Israel. In this single verse the…
The latest robot sensation in Japan is so lifelike that when she stood on the floor of a Tokyo department store recently, she was confused for a human being. “It’s stunning,” Yamamoto says. “I wondered, why on earth all these people were taking a picture of a receptionist. I looked at her carefully and then…
Ken’s surprise birthday lemon meringue pie with the Minks!
Sea Eagles down at the Teshio River near us.
Nestlé’s limited edition Sublime Gold KitKat – covered in a very thin layer of edible gold leaf and described as having a rich, bitter chocolate taste – went on sale at chocolate boutiques in eight swank department stores in Japan in late December. There will also be an opportunity to win an actual, 24-karat gold version of the…