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!
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 →
If you are a frequent visitor of this website and wonder what happened to the layout, it’s because I moved my domain jamesjpn.net to a different hosting service called Ipage.com I was previously using Bluehost for the past 3 years, … Continue reading →
Charles Obadiah “Chuck” Baldwin (born May 3, 1952) is an American politician, radio host, and founder-former pastor of Crossroad Baptist Church in Pensacola, Florida. As of July 2014 he was pastor of Liberty Fellowship in Kalispell, Montana. He was the … Continue reading →
I took these photos in 2008. They were on my old website which is no longer on line, and so I’m re-posting them. … Continue reading →
In the summer of 1997 I needed to leave Russia and St. Petersburg for a visa renewal trip. Rather than make another visa trip to Helsinki in Finland, I opted for neighboring Estonia instead. As you can see on the … Continue reading →
