Lottie Moon was born into a comfortable life on an antebellum plantation in Virginia. She died on Christmas Eve, 1912, on board a ship off the coast of Japan, some say of sickness due to malnutrition, after a life of ministering to and suffering with the Chinese people she loved. Between her birth and death, …
Category Archive: Japan
Nov 14
Karate Kid Does Japan
Karate Kid, age 9, is interested in all things Japanese. While we’ve been touring Asia and Australia and the South Pacific, he’s been concentrating mostly on Japan and books set in Japan. Here are the books he’s read and his, mostly unedited, responses to them: The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn by Dorothy Hoobler I …
Oct 02
Week 8 of World Geography: Japan
Music: Robert Schumann—Symphonic Etudes Robert Schumann and Mascot Ziff–Wheeler Poems: More haiku Science: Physical Science: Force, work, and energy Nonfiction Read Aloud: Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun–Blumberg Fiction Read Alouds: Li Lun, Lad of Courage–Treffinger Born in the Year of Courage–Crofford Picture Books: What Does the Rooster Say, Yoshio?—Battles How My Parents …
Sep 24
Week 7 of World Geography: Japan
Music: Franz Peter Schubert—C Major Symphony A Little Schubert–Goffstein Franz Schubert and His Merry Friends–Wheeler Mission Study: 1. Window on the World: Japan 2. Bold Bearers of His Name: Kanzo Uchimura 3. WotW: Buddhism Poems: Haiku Science: Atoms and Molecules Nonfiction Read Aloud: Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun–Blumberg Fiction Read Alouds: Li …
Aug 28
Allen Say
Say is a Japanese-American author who was also born on this date. He was born in Yokohama, Japan and came to the U.S. just after WWII with his father. His father enrolled him in a military school in California, and Say hated the school and the United States. He was expelled from military school after …
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