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June 6 - 10 I was on the road during this time and didn't heard about the murderous knife rampage in Akihabara that occurred on Sunday, June 8 until the day after. I was shocked to realize that I travelled Sunday afternoon on the very highway just hours after the 25 year old man with a lust for murder in his heart drove on it in a rented truck he would use to plow into a crowd of pedestrians in Akihabara, the electric town of Japan. I myself have been many times to that exact same spot of the scene of the crime because it is next to a computer parts store I visit. The recent wave of indiscriminate knife murders in Japan remind me of the Scripture in Revelation chapter 12 verse 12: "Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time." To think that there are still some spiritually sleepy people around who are still wondering if we are now living in the Endtime just before Jesus comes. My prayer is that they will wake up.

May 17, 2008 I hitchhiked to the city of Kashiwazaki, home of the largest nuclear power plant in the world. One of the drivers who picked me up was a Roman Catholic priest from Colombia. Also with him were two ladies from the Philippines. He didn't know English well but could speak Japanese, but the ladies didn't know Japanese well but could speak English. And so I alternated between English, Japanese and a few words of my high school Spanish in my conversation with them. They drove 30 kilometers out of their way to take me to my destination!

Raccoon dogs

April 11, 2008 About 6:30 PM while parking my bicycle I was startled by two Raccoon Dogs that ran past me in the dusk. One appeared to be chasing the other. They both were adults, about two feet long with short legs and brown fat backs. They whizzed only inches past me as they ran up the hill next to my house. Raccoon dogs are indigenous to East Asia. They are of the dog family but not a true dog. They're not real raccoons either but only resemble them.

April 9, 2008 At the grocery store checkout, my bill totaled exactly 666 yen but all I had on me was only 665 yen! A customer in line just behind me saw my plight and offered me a yen coin (about 1 US cent) to make up the difference. However I debated whether or not to return one of the items and told the cashier, "I would rather not be charged with this amount because the figure represents Satan's number of the Beast! :-) I wasn't too disturbed at this of course and was glad for the opportunity to educate people about the Mark.

April 7, 2008 I learned how to effectively deal with spam on email boxes whose address is supposed to be known only to a certain number of people. ...Read more

Yumie

March 30, 2008 Went to Echigo Yuzawa, a ski resort in the mountains of Niigata. This time my transporation was covered and so I took the Bullet train. It took only 49 minutes to go 135 kilometers (84 miles).

March 7 - 11, 2008 Hitchhiked to Tokyo and back in 15 vehicles. This trip took me over the 60,000 kilometer mark since I've been keeping records from August 2003. Read more...

January 28, 2008: Today I shared with a Japanese friend, Naoko, about my experience yesterday being picked up by Hiroe, an FM radio announcer, and that Hiroe even talked about me on the air this morning. Naoko was surprised, "That was you?! I was listening to that program while at work this morning!" I was surprised that she was surprised because she knows I hitchhike and even picked me up once herself! Naoko said that she heard the email that others sent in response to Hiroe's first hitchhike experience. Some were favorable, and some were against picking up strangers because of the increase of violent crime and robberies in Japan. Yes, crime has increased, but I still consider it one of the safest countries to live in.

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