If you can read a bit of Japanese this site holyring.jp has a ton of info including info on what seems like every church in Japan-with photos! One tip to help with the kanji place names is to hold your cursor over a link or name on the site and at the bottom bar of your screen you can see the place name in the status/address bar?? Sorry I dont know the proper name for it.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jul/08071007.html
EW YORK, NY, July 10, 2008 (C-FAM) - A book recently published by Harvard University Press explains how eugenics united some of the richest and most powerful elites of the twentieth century into a movement “to remake humanity by controlling the population of the world,” answering to no one and bringing untold misery upon the world’s poor.
The book, “Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population,” was written by Columbia University historian Matthew Connelly and shows why today’s reproductive rights advocates are “faithfully reciting a eugenic catechism without the faintest idea where it comes from or where it can lead.”
If you are interested in art, or even if your arent, you are probably interested in Japan so I highly recommend taking a few moments to look at the following sites. here
and four more one for each season. here The above picture is for summer but I would like to suggest a new theme for the artist for summer. Madonna of the air conditioner 
http://www.cbcj.catholic.jp/eng/jcn/jul2008.htm#2
I thought a lot about this part in particular “Free discussion allowed a simple and straight question such as, “We have to know about the apostatized too. I wonder what their feelings were?”
Whenever there have been martyrs in any country there must have been apostates too and at one time I probably would have lightly dismissed them as being cowards. Now though I seriously think about being in their position and would I deny my faith or with the strength of the Holy Spirit be able to die for it? I think it is easier for people in groups to reject the faith together or die for it together because, one way or the other, they have support from those who have made the same decision.
Unfortunately not my trip I havent had the chance to go there and honestly besides the shrine I dont know of anything else to see. Fortunately someone has and has posted a nice guide with photos of their trip.
http://galabad71.tripod.com/
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/07/05/vatican.fake.priest.ap/index.html
The story I thought raised more questions than it answered since there was no info available on the verdict and so on. I wonder how much this guy actually got away with? Im also impressed he managed to get/forge the proper documents as the article states “The man was stopped and his documents checked, and even though he had what appeared to be legitimate documents, including a Vatican pass, personnel were still suspicious, the judge recalled.”
Maybe that explains some bad priests people complain about maybe they are actually fake?!
Wow are we ever asking for a chastisement!
LONDON, July 3, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Doubtless in anticipation of the apparently imminent passage of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, the UK’s embryo research authority has granted a license to scientists to begin work to create human/pig cloned hybrid embryos. The Labour government’s proposed bill, however, would, if passed into law, do away with the necessity of researchers even asking for individual licenses.
The initial stages of the research will be focused on learning to create human/animal hybrid clones more efficiently.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jul/08070310.html
From the CBCJ
http://www.cbcj.catholic.jp/eng/jcn/jul2008.htm#3
This article is about how the priests in the diocese oppose the NW and there will be a later article from the parishioners point of view.
Excerpt
Salesian Fr. Kosuke Murakami, on loan to the diocese and serving as pastor of the Zentsuji Church in Kagawa, explained why he felt the seminary must be closed.
“The seminary is the driving force behind the activities of the Way, producing liturgical problems and damaged unity in parishes,” he said.
“In my previous parish in Imabari (Ehime prefecture),” he continued, “regardless of when a child was born, the Way refused to baptize it until the following Easter, and they refused to let anyone but a Way priest administer the sacrament. They were a completely independent group in the parish that the pastor could not control. The most active members of the parish were drawn off to the Way’s Saturday Mass. Their main financial support was also directed toward that group, to the detriment of the parish as a whole.”
If you are Catholic or even if you are not it is very likely that you are aware of Jesus saying He will return yet we know not the day or the hour but watch and pray, and be prepared. There are even movies made with themes of the apocalypse and anti Christ which people watch just for fun, me included, but dont take seriously. I have always looked on end times speculations with a lot of skepticism and a kind of wait and see attitude. An example of this would be hearing of the prophecy of the popes by St Malachy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophecy_of_the_Popes
A prophecy which I never took too seriously and though it was kind of fun, of course if the next pope is named Peter the Roman …. well I’m not sure what I would do right now!
I have also heard of the many Marian apparitions like Fatima, and Akita, and thought oh how nice but it doesn’t really apply to me until yesterday. Yesterday I did some research on apparitions at a place I had heard the name of but that was all. The place is Garabandal.
http://www.garabandal.us/message.html
What really caught my attention was the promise made to Joey Lomangino that he will receive new eyes ( because he actually has none they were lost in an accident when he was young) on the day of the Great Miracle. The part of the story that caught my attention was not so much the promise but the fact that he is almost 80 years old. Ok he could live to be 100 like my Grandfather and it may be many years before this promise is fulfilled or it might be within the next several years. Or it could be a load of garbage and never happens at all and he dies with two fake eyes and no sight. I am honestly, skeptically, waiting to see what happens. Before this thought there is supposed to be a great warning where we (everyone living on earth) are all made extremely aware of our sins and how we look in Gods eyes then within one year there with be the so called Great Miracle.
Of course I could be hit by a bus tomorrow and none of this would matter except the state of my soul which I am trying with the grace of God to keep in good condition and I think is the main point. We should all be free from mortal sin, going to receive the Eucharist every Sunday and acting. praying for others, and living visibly as Christians ready to meet our maker at any time. However if we are living in the last days I have been reading Mark Malett`s blog since yesterday with my usual skepticism and interest. I dont want to ignore everything related with the end times, dismissing it and saying well people at every time in the Church thought theirs might be the last days, and end up a boiled frog that doenst realize what is going on until it is too late. At the same time I dont want to fall prey to fakes, and frauds so I try to be careful but aware.
http://www.markmallett.com/blog/
Monday, Apr. 21, 1941
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,772709,00.html
“Japan is sending its No. 1 churchman, Bishop Yoshimune Abe, and its No. 1 Christian, trachoma-cured Toyohiko Kagawa, to a peace parley with U.S. church leaders at Riverside, Calif, next week. Its purpose as stated by the Japanese: “Prayer and to explore ways to preserve peace between Japan and the United States.“
The part of the article I was interested in in particular was the last paragraph.
“Two subjects not likely to be aired are Bishop Abe’s practice of worshiping at the Shinto Shrine at Ise and the decision of the Government-inspired church union to modify the Apostles’ Creed as suggested by the Ministry of Education. Some of the deletions: the Virgin Birth because it was “immoral,” the Resurrection because it was “unscientific and superstitious,” the Last Judgment because it implied that the Emperor could be judged.“
