c199b88e_Hitchhiking_in_Japan_Log__Highlights_of_trip
[Date] 06/02/06 [Destination] Shiojiri City, Nagano Prefecture [Distance] 520KM [# Vehicles] 8 [Highlights of trip] 
I met again the same English speaking teacher who picked me up last week! He said he read the tract I gave him about Heaven. Because of the rise in crime in this country grammar school children are warned by their teachers not to talk to strangers. The man told me he once asked a child for directions and the child immediately ran away from him! A VP of a large software company went a few miles out of his way to take me to my destination. He says he is greatly interested in religion (which is rare for most Japanese), and especially in Buddhism because it takes in all religions. He said that most Japanese no reason for living other than their jobs and families. They get depressed when they have too much free time. I told him I was like that too until I came to know real salvation in Jesus Christ, and that Buddhists too can believe on Jesus as their Lord and Savior! He didn't debate that. On the return trip I debated whether to take a short train ride to get to an expressway parking area or to hitchhike from my usual spot in Chino city, I'm so glad I chose the latter because within minutes after arrival to the traffic light a middle aged couple driving a car with Niigata license plates took me 92% of the way back home! This is excellent because usually I can go no further than 7% of the distance from that particular point in a single ride. They expressed amazment that the timing was just perfect to meet me, and I told them how blessed I was to meet them! Their two daughters are living in the USA and the eldest daughter is married to a man who is a domestic airline pilot. They met at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. Since the Iraq war the tuition doubled for foreign students at that university forcing half of them to return to their home countries being able to pay the tuition.
Hitchhiking in Japan Log
Highlights of trip