Here I'd like to share with you some of the photos I took at JR Tokyo Station and in Osaka today. Now you know where I am at present. Oh, how very happy I am to be away from Tokyo even for only two days!
At Tokyo Station (5:50 a.m.). Just looking at the sign about the bullet train makes me so excited. I really can't admire Japan's high-speed train technology enough. This is nothing to be taken for granted. They are just amazing. Who ever could say no to its reliability? How so many Japanese people have been made happy by this rapid transport system! Was the French philosopher right or wrong when he thought we all should stay in our rooms without ever going out? Now's the time to say yes or no to philosophy. The philosophers, as if being great authorities we should always ask for advice, so freely and irresponsibly say whatever they like, but how many of them have been of any use to us though some people would have the audacity to insist that paradoxically it's its uselessness that makes philosophy really useful (What sophistry!)? Christianity and philosophy don't go hand in hand, so, as an evangelical Christian Zionist, I've kicked the latter out of my sphere. In my opinion, philosophy and atheism tend to go hand in hand, so my shop will never be open to them. After all, those atheists interested in philosophy are more or less like Socrates, who said we should obey every law, be it good or bad. I'm the last person in Japan to stand with a man like that. Chiune Sugihara and Kiichiro Higuchi, both of whom voluntarily risked their careers by violating bad laws, were 180 degrees different from the immoral philosopher and I'd be very happy to cooperate with people like the two Japanese real heroes whenever necessary. Socrates, along with Heidegger, a one-time Nazi who remained silent about the Holocaust after WWII and lived to a very old age, will never be my ideal. Now you know how dangerous philosophy can be. Christians all over the world are strongly advised to unite to campaign against philosophy, which is utterly useless not only to Christians themselves but also to most people in the world. Or is it dying because so few people in the world are now interested in it?
At Tokyo Station (5:54 a.m.)
At Tokyo Station (5:55 a.m.)
At Shin-Osaka Station (8:26 a.m.)
At Shin-Osaka Station (8:27 a.m.)
At Shin-Osaka Station (8:33 a.m.)
At Abeno Harukas, the tallest skyscraper in Abeno, Osaka (9:28 a.m.)
At Kita-Tanabe Station, Higashi-Sumiyoshi, Osaka (9:55 a.m.)
I knew Mr. Takahara, the evangelical missionary who has had a great influence upon me since March 2020, wouldn't be at this church today because he's always so busy traveling around Japan, but I visited this site simply because just visiting it means a lot to me.
At Kita-Tanabe Station (10:15 a.m.)
At Kita-Tanabe Station (10:18 a.m.)
At Kyobashi Hall, Kita, Osaka (11:52 a.m.)
At Kyobashi Hall (12:07 p.m.)
At Kyobashi Hall (1:17 p.m.)
Outside Kyobashi Hall (2:43 p.m.)