Well… I could definitely rant for a while on just about anything regarding this project. I was gathering together about a third of my pictures/videos for the master slideshow that I would show everybody. I did this with my pictures from my trip two years ago, but I had to continuously trim the amount of …
Category: Christianity
Posts dealing with Christianity.
Nov 01 2008
Japan’s Suicide Rate
“Japan has the eighth highest suicide rate in the world, according to the World Health Organization.” AP reported that today in an article that mentioned how frequent suicides by toxic fumes are in Japan. It is saddening to hear that Japan’s suicide rate is so high-one of the highest for a first-world country. One may …
Jul 16 2008
Japan One
That title means a lot of things to me. I decided I would blog rather randomly, perhaps rantingly, so I thought of a random title. There are a lot of things I gather. For one (no pun intended), there are only about one percent Christian here. That’s a big deal to me. Many people believe …
Jun 16 2008
Why I Don’t Call God Jehovah
I realized yesterday the best reason why I shouldn’t call the Father God Jehovah. Naturally, it takes Father’s Day for me to think of it. My church displayed a quote on the bottom of the screen for one song. It said, “God has given me the best gift ever, and I call him Dad!” It’s that …
Jun 11 2008
Stabbing Story
I’ve been following this story since it broke on Sunday. In one of the worst incidents of violence in Japan, a man had a plot to kill several people. He ran a pickup truck over a bunch of people, killing three. He then jumped out of the truck and stabbed people, killing four more. When …
May 23 2008
Pray for Japan’s Suicide Rate
Don’t read this if you just ate… I frequently read AP, and flip to Asia World News. Occasionally, they mention Japan. Unfortunately, many times it is about a suicide. I believe I recently talked about how Japanese have found a new way to kill themselves. It involves mixing fumes and such. One farmer decided to …
May 02 2008
Japan’s Suicide Methodology
“…the Japanese media tends to focus on the method young people are using to kill themselves, not on the motives.” -Michael Zielenziger I like to start my blog posts with quotes, huh? I guess those give me motivation. Well, just reading on a new type of suicide, which I guess involves death by household detergent …