ÿþ<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=unicode"> <title>connecting with the Kindervaters</title> <style> <!-- div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style> </head> <body bgcolor="#7C89A0" link="#000080" vlink="#64728B" alink="#800000"> <div align="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="520" height="974"> <!-- MSTableType="layout" --> <tr> <td valign="top" colspan="2" height="82"> <!-- MSCellType="ContentHead" --> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" height="100%"> <!-- MSCellFormattingTableID="1" --> <tr> <td bgcolor="#800000" height="5"> <img alt="" width="1" height="5" src="../images/MsSpacer.gif"></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="100%"> <!-- MSCellFormattingType="content" --> <table border="0" width="100%" height="100%" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td width="100%" height="100%" valign="middle"> <p align="right"> <font color="#800000"> <img border="0" src="../images/mtitle.jpg" width="116" height="44" align="left"></font></p> <p align="right"><b> <font color="#800000" face="Arial">K</font></b><font color="#64728B" size="2" face="Arial">onnecting with the </font><font color="#800000" face="Arial"><b> K</b></font><font color="#64728B" size="2" face="Arial">indervaters in Japan</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#7C89A0" height="5" width="100%"> <img alt="" width="1" height="5" src="../images/MsSpacer.gif"></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width="95"> <!-- MSCellType="NavBody" --> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" height="100%"> <!-- MSCellFormattingTableID="2" --> <tr> <td width="100%"> <!-- MSCellFormattingType="content" --> <table border="0" width="100%" height="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td width="84" height="100%" valign="top">&nbsp;<!--webbot bot="Navigation" S-Type="sequence" S-Orientation="vertical" S-Rendering="html" S-Bar="Tabular" S-Btn-Nml="&lt;A HREF=&quot;#URL#&quot; TARGET=&quot;#TARGET#&quot;&gt;#LABEL#&lt;/A&gt;" S-Btn-Sel="#LABEL#" S-Btn-Sep="&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;" S-Bar-Pfx="&lt;table&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;" S-Bar-Sfx="&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;" B-Include-Home="FALSE" B-Include-Up="FALSE" U-Page="sid:1001" Tag="body" startspan --><table><tr><td align="center"><nobr><A HREF="../indexretired200907.htm" TARGET="">Home</A></nobr></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><nobr><A HREF="../prayer.htm" TARGET="">Prayer</A></nobr></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><nobr><A HREF="../news_main.htm" TARGET="">News</A></nobr></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><nobr><A HREF="../Kapsules_archive.htm" TARGET="">Kapsules</A></nobr></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><nobr><A HREF="../elemalbum.htm" TARGET="">Photos</A></nobr></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><nobr><A HREF="../Videotop.htm" TARGET="">Video</A></nobr></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><nobr><A HREF="mailto:sanbi4u-hp32@dvjapan.org?subject=from homepage" TARGET="">Contact&nbsp;us</A></nobr></td></tr></table><!--webbot bot="Navigation" i-checksum="4808" endspan --></td> </tr> </table> </td> <td bgcolor="#7C89A0" height="100%" width="5"> <img alt="" width="5" height="1" src="../images/MsSpacer.gif"></td> </tr> </table> </td> <td valign="top" height="840"> <!-- MSCellType="ContentBody" --> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" height="100%"> <!-- MSCellFormattingTableID="3" --> <tr> <td height="100%" width="100%"> <!-- MSCellFormattingType="content" --> <table border="0" width="100%" height="100%" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td width="100%" height="100%" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right"><span lang="en-us"><b><i> <font face="Arial" size="3" color="#64728B">come back here, foreigner! | </font> <font face="Arial" size="3" color="#800000">Kapsule</font></i></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right"><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial" size="2" color="#800000">4/2/03</font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000080" size="2" face="Arial"> <span lang="EN-US">&nbsp;</span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US">Evangeline and I went to Tokyo this summer, looking for a tourist info center that the travel guide recommended as the best in Tokyo. After searching for quite a while with no success, we went to a local police box to ask for directions. </span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"> <span lang="EN-US">Tokyo is a metro area of about 30 million people. It s crowded and the streets don t run in any planned fashion, nor do they have names. Yes, that s right. In a city of 30 million, the streets aren t named. Just try to find something!</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"> <span lang="EN-US">When you can t find a place, you ask at the police box. The policeman was very nice and pulled out his maps, but with no success. We thanked him and were going to leave, but he insisted that we stay while he made some phone calls. He called around, but no one had ever heard of this place which was, according to the guide book, the largest tourist information center in Tokyo and should be right in the neighborhood. Now, we weren t the last bit surprised that the tourist information center was hidden that well. We re getting used to things like that.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"> <span lang="EN-US">Finally, the policeman gave us directions to a nearby hotel, suggesting that we ask there. We thanked him for all his help and left. Now, the police box was located just across from the Emperor s palace, on one of the largest streets in Tokyo. It was mid-day, the traffic was heavy, and probably close to 100 people were waiting at the intersection to cross the street. We joined the crowd and when the light changed, we crossed the street.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"> <span lang="EN-US">As we approached the far side, suddenly a loud voice blasted above the roar of the traffic and city noise. At first we didn t catch it, but everyone looked at us. The second time we caught the announcement:  Foreigner, come back here. We looked, and there was our friendly policeman, shouting through a bullhorn and waving for us to come back. Of course, everyone was looking at us and wondering what crime we had committed. </span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"> <span lang="EN-US">We turned and ran quickly across the street, to find that the policeman had located the place we were searching for. </span> </font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"> <span lang="EN-US">There is no end to the kindness of the Japanese.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right"> <font face="Arial" size="2"><br> &nbsp;</font></p> <p>&nbsp;</td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="33" width="425">&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#7C89A0" colspan="2" height="19"> <p align="center">&nbsp;<font size="2" color="#C0C0C0">Serving with the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Japan</font></td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </html>