More of Japan Culture, Rajio Taiso, Liahona, and this and that....

Here we are inside a typical Japanese household. When we first arrived the man was sitting there at the table reading his newspaper.  The people are very agile and can sit easily on the floor.  One of the secretaries at our office will often be sitting on her knees on her chair.  You don't even realize that she is doing it because she is completely sitting down on her legs.  I wish that I could take a picture but I wouldn't want to offend her that I thought she was so amazing that she could do that.

Here is the picture of the man in his house.  They were a very nice family and they were very kind.  The lady of the house had a whole bunch of cats that were mechanical and meowed and moved that she used to entertain us.


Here we are with Brad Wilcox and his wife.  They came and spoke for a lot of youth firesides in Japan.  He is a very entertaining and inspiring speaker.  The teenagers just loved to hear him.  I was especially impressed because he went around and shook hands with everybody and you would have thought he was your best friend.  They stayed at the apartments that are next to the Area Office so we got to talk to them again on the day they were leaving.  They even bought a lot of rolls for us and the secretaries in the office a lot of rolls from the bakery down the street.




Rajio Taiso
The following are some of the web sites that show how we exercise here in Japan.  The one showing the park is pretty much exactly what our group does when we do rajio taiso exercises in the park.  We don't go every day but many people do.  If you can't click on the links, you could probably copy them and paste into your browser.

http://japangasm.wordpress.com/2010/06/13/ichi-ni-san-shi-go-roku-shichi-hachi/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lSxredOH6w

http://www.google.co.jp/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&ved=0CDkQtwIwAg&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D3lSxredOH6w&ei=EYscUp-BF4ewkgXPj4GYBg&usg=AFQjCNGSDWuCx8j1nmwFc7LFXmtKZoAYSQ&sig2=B3V_azcjvsi7dLFCOEU89A

This might is part of a the song they sing with the music:
RAJIO no koe ni  sukoyaka na mune wo
Kono kaoru kaze ni hirake yo
Sore ichi ni san

Atarashii sora no moto  kagayaku midori
Sawayaka ni teashi nobase  tsuchi fumishime yo
RAJIO to tomo ni  sukoyaka na teashi
Kono hiroi tsuchi ni nobase yo
Sore ichi ni san



                  This is a picture of the front of the Liahona magazine.

 They translate the Liahona Magazine into Japanese here at the Asia North Area Office and they add a Japanese section.   Inside they placed a picture to be sent to the people in Japan of the Area Presidency along with Elder Chandler the executive secretary, and Adam Aalders, the director for temporal affairs.  They are listed in the picture left to right: Elder Chandler, Elder Koichi Aoyagi, Elder Michael T. Ringwood, Elder Scott D. Whiting, Adam Aalders.