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No Looting in Japan

January 25, 2015 by andy

No Looting in Japan

My older brother has been a missionary to Japan for 30 years. Presently he is living in Kentucky. When I called to ask about the tragedy in Japan he assured me that if any people could survive a disaster of this magnitude surely the Japanese people could. He has a great admiration for them as […]

Filed Under: 2011 Earthquake Tsunami, Disasters, Japan Stories Tagged With: 2011 earthquake/tsunami, chile, community, haiti, kevin probst, l.a. riots, looting

Living in the Land of the Rising Sun

January 21, 2015 by andy

Living In The Land Of The Rising Sun

A friend recently asked me what it’s actually like for a non-Japanese person to live in Japan, (knowing that my wife and I have lived here for 14 years). The hardest part about answering that question is fitting it into the length of an article, but as the Japanese say, “Ganbarimasu!” (I’ll do my best!) […]

Filed Under: Japan Stories, Living in Japan Tagged With: alphabets, ambulance, apartment, australia, bicycle, body language, buying a car, chopsticks, chris ryall, community, deer, different, foreign, foreign workers, foreigners, group mentality, hospital system, Japan, japanese language, japanese menus, language, living in japan, monkeys, national health insurance, phone, recycling, sumo, taxi drivers, wild boars

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