Raised in the Hegewisch neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, served in the USAF from 1970 to 1974, and became a full-time missionary for Christ in Japan ever since except for a couple years back in America, 3.5 years in Russia, and a few months in other countries such as Finland, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, South Korea, Taiwan and mainland China where I also served the King of Kings, Jesus, as an Ambassador for His Kingdom. I am a live by faith with no steady income except for an English teaching class twice a month which brings in about $100 US. If you find this website a blessing, please send a gift through Paypal to: james.arendt@jamesjpn.net Because I am not a registered charity, please don't designate it as a donation but as for services rendered. Thank you!
In midsummer Japan holds public festivals which are called in Japanese Omatsuri. One of the ceremonies in the festival is when men dressed in traditional Japanese garments carry an ornamental box that sits on two poles. The box is called … Continue reading →
This is another adventure I had on my old kt70com/~jamesjpn site which I am reposting. It occurred from April 27 to May 7, 2005. I had two consecutive hitchhiking adventures, the first to Osaka, Kyoto and Tokyo, and the second … Continue reading →
This is from a Facebook post written by my good friend, David Nikao, the guy who opened my eyes to the true interpretation of Daniel 9:27 Look at who President Trump has surrounded himself with, and what they have in … Continue reading →
After serving for five years on the faculty of the University of Kansas, in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Nino Lo Bello returned to his original profession of journalism and went overseas as a foreign correspondent. Stationed in Rome, … Continue reading →
Another oldie goldie adventure from my old website I am reposting. On April 30, 2004, I hitchhiked 500 kilometers from Niigata city to Nagoya, the 3rd largest metropolis in Japan. It was the second day of “Golden Week.” Below is … Continue reading →
This is an article I wrote at the end of August 2005. It was only my old website which is no longer on-line and I am therefore reposting it. I hitchhiked from Niigata City to Matsumoto City in Nagano, and … Continue reading →
By Camilo Mejia, Conscientious objector Camilo Mejia: “I was a coward not for leaving the war, but for having been a part of it in the first place.” In March 2004, 28-year-old Sgt. Camilo Mejia turned himself in to the … Continue reading →
My old website at kt70.com~jamesjpn is no longer on line. I am therefore posting some of the articles from it to this website. On May 16, 2008 I saw two young bamboo shoots about 3 feet high growing next to … Continue reading →
Due to popular request I have complied a list of tips and lessons I learned over the past several years hitchhiking in Japan. I think the basic tip is to use common sense and have the attitude of, “where there’s … Continue reading →
The original title of this article is My drug addiction story Posted on Dr. John Gideon Harnett’s Revolution for Jesus website. I am reposting it with his permission. Dr John G. Hartnett is an Australian physicist and cosmologist, and a … Continue reading →
