It was 1981. My parents were visiting Japan, helping us to build a building. While Dad installed kitchen cabinets, the Japanese tile man, Mr. Narahashi, was installing the Japanese-style bath.…
Just a Couple of Old Soldiers
Tag: Japan
Of Mice Rats and Men
To be a country where everything is small, Japan certainly has large mice. Over here, we’d call them rats; but the Japanese call them mice. (That is, the Japanese word…
Psalm 139
The young Japanese mother had never read the Bible before. The group turned to Psalm 139, and she read it out loud. When she finished, she sat perfectly still for…
The Wind Phone
In May of 2017 I learned about the wind phone. It’s a phone booth with an unconnected phone, located in Japan in the area of the earthquake-tsunami-nuclear disaster of 2011.…
“Until You Reached This Place”
The year was 2000. My husband, Mark, had quit his job (partly at my insistence) because he was literally pacing the floor in his desperation to get back to Japan…