Japanese Ice Monsters

Every year freezing winds sweep down from Siberia and across the Sea of Japan to drape evergreen trees on the mountains of northern Japan with a coating of ice. Then the snow falls and covers those icicle trees with a thick layer of snow that makes them appear like an army of fearsome Abominable Snowmen. The Japanese call them “juhyo,” meaning ice monsters.

Sadly, these wonders are becoming a thing of the past due to climate change. Juhyo used to be found as far south as Nagano, about 140 miles northwest of Tokyo. But due to warming temperatures, today you won’t find the juhyo unless you go at least to Yamagata Prefecture, more than 100 miles further north. Climate scientists tell us that the juhyo may disappear completely by the end of the 21^st century.

To read more about climate change and how it may be fulfilling biblical prophecy, check out “Apocalypse Soon,” chapter 11 of my book, Beyond Blind Faith: Reasons For the Hope We Have (1 Peter 3:15), which you read for free on this website by clicking here. Should you decide to purchase the book, you can do so here. The e-book is only 99 cents.

You might also enjoy these whimsical stories—and one poem—which I have written, and which you can read for free here.