For the Joy of Japan

It’s a typical Monday morning in Nagoya, Japan. I’m getting ready to leave for work while my daughter begins her English lesson with my wife. Then I hear her read an example sentence that stirs painful memories: “The speeding truck caused a terrible crash.”As my daughter starts diagramming the sentence, I exit our apartment in a daze. That simple sentence transports me to a painful phone call I received ten years prior from a pastor at Bethlehem Baptist Church, breaking terrible news: The Pals f