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…
Pilot Corporation is a Japanese pen manufacturer based in Tokyo, Japan. Researchers were experimenting with color-changing ink at Pilot labs when someone changed an ink color from black to no color — transparent. The ink was effectively erased. The result — an erasable pen! FriXion Ball, the erasable and colorful ballpoint pen, is an innovative…
The Tokyo metropolitan government has decided that the Athletes’ Village for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games will be made into a “hydrogen town” where electricity and hot water are supplied through hydrogen energy, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. After the Tokyo Olympics are over, the electricity and hot water generated with hydrogen energy are…
Forgive the lack of communication these last few weeks…first it was getting ready time for Vicki’s trip to the States (May 24-June 24th) as well as get things set up in our home for temporary living with the Marks family that came back with Vicki. Now that month has come and gone, and we excitedly…
Celebrating Christmas is very popular in Japan, but December 25th is NOT a national holiday in Japan. Japanese people work and go to school as usual. But although only about 1% of the Japanese population is Christian (the rest are Buddhists and Shinto) Japanese Christmas is a big Day, with traditions that are uniquely…
This is why we are here in Japan–the key words –they do not understand…Isaiah 44:19 And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it:…