Convenience store chain Lawson and electronics maker Panasonic Corp. have started testing a staff-less register for which a machine settles the transactions and packs purchased items into a bag. The system, dubbed Reji Robo, short for register robots, debuted at an outlet of Lawson in Osaka Prefecture on Monday. Lawson plans to eventually introduce the […]
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Santa doesn’t have to worry about job security anymore, at least in Japan. Domino’s Pizza sadly scrapped their plan to provide customers in Japan with a festive twist on their favorite fastfood dish: reindeer delivery. The company first announced the idea on Nov. 17, stating it was working with the Hokkaido Delivery Integrated Research Center’s team
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Dear Pastors and Prayer Partners, Thank you for your continued prayers and support! This past Sunday I had the opportunity to present in two different churches, one in Alabama near Birmingham, and the other in North Georgia. Presently, I am praying that my support will be at 15% before February. Will you please pray for God
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Dear Pastors and Prayer Partners, The Lord continues to bless my time on deputation! With one new potential supporter from this past Sunday, I am excited about the possibility of having yet another church join the cause to reach Japan with the Gospel. I would like to invite you on the 2017 Missions Trip headed
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This week’s City by Designated by Government Ordinance (CDGO) highlight is Fukuoka City. Fukuoka is a port city on the norther part of Kyushu Island and has a population of about 1.5 million people. With the metropolitan population bringing the total to 2.5 million, Fukuoka is indeed a key city in need of the Gospel.
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Dear Pastors and Prayer Partners, Thank you for your prayers for safety over the last several days. both the trip to North Carolina on Sunday and to Florida on Monday ended safely. In Florida, I, along with Jeff Bush (VBM director), Dallas Brown (missionary to Burkina Faso), and Sam Quinn (missionary to India) had the opportunity
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A powerful earthquake rocked northern Japan early on Tuesday, briefly disrupting cooling functions at a nuclear plant and generating a small tsunami that hit the same Fukushima region devastated by a 2011 quake, tsunami and nuclear disaster. The magnitude 7.4 earthquake, which was felt in Tokyo, sent thousands of residents fleeing for higher ground as
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Dear Pastors and Prayer Partners, This past Sunday, several students of the OGTC and I had the opportunity to be with a church in Jonesboro, GA and help with their Open House Sunday. For the event, there were representatives from different areas of public service including the police department, fire department, and school district. Praise God for the
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In Chichibu, Japan, two hours northwest of Tokyo, there’s an odd museum; perhaps the only one of its kind. It’s called the Chinsekikan (which means hall of curious rocks) and it houses over 1700 rocks that resemble human faces. The museum houses all kinds of jinmenseki, or rock with a human face, including celebrity lookalikes
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Dear Pastors and Prayer Partners, Thank you for your continued prayer support! God has continued to allow me to be in vibrant and growing churches for meetings. Both the church Sunday morning and the church Sunday night (both in Georgia) are considering supporting the ministry to Japan. Do you know which Japanese car is manufactured
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