For years, the Olympic opening ceremonies have been spectacles on a grand scale and for some it’s never too early to start planning. One startup company has a proposal for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo that is literally out of this world: launch fireworks from orbiting satellites to create a man-made meteor shower. This might sound a bit…
Dear Praying Friends, Ex 1:8 ¶ Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. Another generation came and did not remember the great help that Joseph had been to Egypt. God did not forget Joseph and his family, people did. People and time have a way of forgetting the past. …
(2010) A group of Japanese musicians were loaned a piano from its owner Yoko Matsuba, an 84-year-old survivor of the nuclear bombing. The piano was used in a concert which took place in the autumn at the United Nations headquarters in New York in order to promote global peace and the abolition of nuclear weapons.…
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…
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.
