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This was the earthquake that sent me and half of my mission (Osaka) to other parts of Japan in 1995.
I'll never forget it. Waking up at 5:45am, the walls were shaking, I was bouncing gaining about two feet of air with every bounce,parts of the building were falling off. It was scary. I thought I was through. Fortunately no one in the mission was seriously hurt. Unfortunately, many people that I knew were not. It was a sad time.
I was unhappy to leave Osaka, but came to love Sapporo just as much as Osaka.
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Does anybody know about Del Drapper choro who served with Munns. I know he was from Stone Mt. Georgia. Send me a line if you know anything.
thanks,
Steve McIff
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If you want to know about the Makomanai apartment just ask McBride Choro. I'm pretty sure he is the one who moved the apartment from the HOLE we lived in on the 'bad' side of the Olympic apartments. For those of you who lived in the Rairaku mansion as it was called, I hope you have wonderful memories of the washing machine in the bathtub. You could shower and run a load of whites at the same time...............if you have never seen the place, remind me to bring my video to the next reunion.....
As far as earthquakes go I remember many of them. The Okushiri jishin of 1993, the 8+ earthquake that rocked the Kuril islands in 1994 plus the Nemuro jishin and the Hachinohe jishin in the sendai mission. If you want to see a listing of some of the biggest in Japan and a cool map of japanese earthquakes check here
http://www.drgeorgepc.com/EarthquakesJapan.html
Hopefully that experience makes us all want to be prepared for the earthquakes we know are coming in the last days.......
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I was really sorry to read about Mike Matthews on this message site. He was my trainor in Kitami. He was a great man and I owe him for making me the missionary I was. If anyone has any information on the details of what happened to him please contact me.
Thanks.
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My wife is from Hokkaido and she told me that her cousin works for a public swimming pool in Sapporo and that the day after the quake, the pool had to close for maintenance/clean up since the pool water had been thrown up into the dressing rooms by the shaking, essentially a mini-tsunami.
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Epicenter about 26 miles below the ocean floor and about 60 miles SW of Kushiro down by Urakawa city's neighbor Erimo, the coastal point below Obihiro. Read more here:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,98344,00.html
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Hello everyone. For those of you who served in Suehiro: I just heard from Ito (Yamaoto) Megumi Shimai that Shitami Airin Shimai is serving a mission in Honolulu, HI. I know the Shitami's were new to the Suehiro area when I served there, and I believe they lived elsewhere in our same mission. They moved again and I lost track of their family. I'm so excited for Airin chan to be serving now, as she is the oldest of 7 children, I believe. They are a wonderful family, and I just wanted to pass along this wonderful bit of news. The gospel continues to roll forth.
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XanGo(www.xango.net) is looking for Japanese speaking customer service agents for night shift. Shift starts 2:30pm and ends 11pm. We need 3 to 4 people A.S.A.P. If you are interedted in,please call me 801-816-8162 or 801-816-8100.Thanks!
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Obituary published in the Deseret News on 8/3/2003.
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Michael J.Matthews "My Mike" Loving husband, father, son, grandson,
brother and friend, Mike Matthews, age 36, passed away unexpectedly August
1, 2003. Mike was born Dec 9, 1966 in Logan, UT. He is survived by his
wife, Julie; children, David and Sarah; his dog, Sonny; his father, Larry
(Alayne) Matthews; his mother, Sally (Del) Thompson; siblings, Michele
Sabel, Melissa Matthews, Amber Matthews, Tricia Holden, Shane (Lori)
Holden, Kym (Eric) Cottrell, Eric Thompson, Dan (Sharon) Thompson, Patti
(Ron) Hurst, Mic Thompson; grandparents Howard and Rada Matthews, Chester
and Bessie Sams. Mike graduated from Evanston High School in 1985. He
served in the Japan Sapporo Mission 1986-88. Mike married Julie Bulpitt on
Dec 29, 1990 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. Mike had a firm testimony of his
Savior Jesus Christ, and served faithfully in the LDS Church in many
leadership, teaching and musical callings. Mike spent his college years at
BYU and then pursued a career in sales. His hobbies reflected his love of
music, basketball and patriotism, and his creativity was evident in all he
did. He will also be remembered for his Elton John impersonations and
being a lifelong Lakers fan. Mike treasured the special relationship he
had with his grandparents. Mike was the light in his children's eyes and
the sparkle in their smiles. Mike was deeply loved and will be missed by
all who knew him. Funeral will be Tues. Aug 5, 2003, 11 a.m., at the
Westland 10th Ward Chapel, 7645 S. 3200 W. Friends may call Mon. 6-8 p.m.
at McDougal Funeral Home, 4330 S. Redwood Rd, and Tues. at the church one
hour prior to services. Interment: Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park.
Published in the Deseret News on 8/3/2003.
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Duh duh head wrote down your address on a napkin the last time our family visited with you. Used napkin by accident. Where are you now?
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I will be in Provo/Orem August 28-30. I will be at the BYU football game on the 28th. Anyone who wants to meet up let me know.
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This message is directed to those from the Suzuki era who remember Shumway (Doug)Choro or me. In May of this year I returned to Japan to teach a cultural anthropology class on the Ainu. It was wonderful and Doug, who has spent most of his post mission life in Asia, arranged to come and visit me. We had a glorious 3 days together, visited local sites (in Hikone), went hiking and talked. We reminisced about the good old days and how are lives evolved to the present. It was one of the most rewarding connections with another person ever-- thanks Doug, your insight was keen. One of the first things Doug said when we started visiting was, "I sure hope my journal gets better." What he meant was, more positive. He had been reading his dendo journal in preparation for our visit, and I had too. We found that we had been incredibly hard on ourselves and expected perfect performance and blessed results. Since the results were rarely perfect we found that our entries were quite negative with respect to ourselves. We heaped all the blame on us if we didn't get in a house during kobetsu homon, or if the investigator dropped us or a baptizee went inactive. "It must have been that I didn't study hard enough this morning"; or it was because "I let my mind wander during scripture study"; or it must have been that "I looked too long at a cute tryphyd," etc. Our mission was kibishii, no doubt about it, but were we all too competitive with ourselves and each other; was it the system? It was to that point the greatest 2 years ever and part of it was the intense discipline required, but I also think we may have been too harsh with ourselves and took ourselves too seriously. What do you think?
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hi every one i am trying to find sister tanaka who served in 1996-1998, she was the senior companion of sister matsumoto in tomakomai when i served in tomakomai. we all helped to teach a family who was deaf except the child.sister tanakas mother was a member of NHK who signed for the deaf community in japan(tokyo i think)if any one knows of her and can get us in contact with each other i would be most greatful. i wish to disscuss the up coming deaf oylmpics in australia 2005 and my interest in helping the japanese deaf community who might be interested in coming to australia for it.
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I have been given the priveledge of doing research for the new Personal Courage Wing at the Museum of Flight in Seattle. It is a museum in itself soley dedicated to the brave pilots of WWI & WWII.
We have received large number of authentic WWII Japanese magazines that I can't read.
Would any of you kanji bandits out there like copies and take a crack at them?
Thanks - Deana Paul
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Does anyone know if the video "hi no izuru kuni" is available thru the SLC distribution center? It's about the 100th anniversary of the church in japan (all in nihongo) and its got a lot of good footage of the Tokyo temple announcement, Fukuoka temple construction, story of H.J. Grant going to Japan, etc. My son borrowed it from his seminary teacher for the weekend, and I'd like to get a copy of it. I checked the lds.org website and requested a list of Japanese materials, but it takes about 2 weeks to get it.
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For anybody that is interested, there is a streaming video of Odori Park at www.fromhokkaido.jp. For those, like me, who don't read Japanese, in the upper right center of the web page, there is a night picture of some buildings. Click where it says "Live". On the next page you will see in upper right side "300K". If you have DSL, it will take you to the webcam. You may have trouble viewing this if you do not have DSL. Enjoy the site!
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Hi all,
We will be visiting Utah this August. I thought it might be fun to see some old friends from the mish. If anyone would like to get together in August email me and let me know.
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Hey guys!!
What's up?? I hope you guys remember me, crazy Elder sato!!
Do you know what?? I'm in San Francisco now!! It's been 3 weeks already and 4 more weeks here. I met a couple return missionaries already but I wanna meet more and more, man!! If you can come to here, asobou yooooo!! E-mail me back and keep in touch!!
Tomo
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Hey, I think I'm the newest returned missionary to write anything on here. I just got back from the last transfer on valentines day. If there are any old companions that read this, give me an email and we'll go out and eat sushi at ichiban's over here in southern california. yoroshiku o negai shimasu
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Hello all.... I am in need of the help of our more recently returned alumni.
I am trying to locate the Abe family from the Teine ward. Apparently they have moved because my mail was returned.
Father is Nobuyuki, Mom is Mizue
2 Sons Takamasa and Akio
They joined the church in late 1993 and I visited them on vacation in 1996. I haven't had much from them since about year 2000. Anyone know where they may have moved to? Dad had a fairly fancy restuarant in Susukino and they were in an apartment in Hon-cho of Teine so it is possible they have moved. Anyone with any info please let me know..
Thanks folks.....
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