Today is the opening day of a three day symposium, MUNICH PEACE DAYS 2003 organized by a beautiful lady, Ms. Gudula Blau. The venue is the hotel we are staying at, the first class hotel in Munich, Forum Hotel Munich. Ms. Blau is an actress and a chanson singer. We have been friends since my first seminar in Munich three years ago where she was one of the audiences. She came to the stage after my presentation being so thrilled to give me a Tyrol warbling doll.
　She was probably so inspired by my crystal pictures. About this time last year I was asked for a seminar and I agreed on participation. Soon this project was planned and now it was realized.
　She recently composed a song with only Japanese words, called "Ai ni Arigato(Thanks for Love)". She appreciated 100 % the love and thanks theory in my talk and produced a CD in all Japanese. She then sent it to my laboratory. Of course I made the water listen to it and took a picture of the crystal. A wonderful beautiful crystal picture was captured. The picture really well represented the purity and the crystal in the picture was full of energy. The picture is above on the left.
　Of course, as you know, I showed that picture to those, about 250 people, who gathered today. Ms. Blau looked really pleased with a burst of applause. With many doctors and scholars invited from overseas including me, a three day meeting started today, and I was also pleased to have completed a big role of giving the opening keynote lecture (the picture on the right). I was sure that through this event Hado for the world peace was transmitted from here in Munich.

It was fortunate that we walked around the main places of interest yesterday since it had been raining since this morning. We visited the Uffizi Gallery, which I made reservation in advance for 11:30 am. The collections including Italian famous paintings from 1400s to 1700s, created by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raffaello, Botticelli, and Urbino are displayed in chronological order. It is a must-see gallery for not only art lovers but for everyone.
　It turned out that we stayed there for less than one hour, and we became so exhausted and decided to go back to the hotel. I took a little nap, and now I am writing this diary. My impression of Firenze is that this city is a little depressing to me, which I felt the same way when I visited Rome last year. Both cities have much wonderful architecture, which is very overwhelming. The magnificence of the church buildings and palaces are really something. However, I cannot help but thinking that this is not "genuine".
　My comments may upset Italians or the people who favor Italy, and I need to explain so that I won’t be misunderstood. The actual buildings that are standing are the true works of art with highly refined beauty and the bold composition. These are the perfect reasons for those who aspire to be an artist, and I do not mean to deny them in that sense.
　However, wherever I went, I felt the sense of overpowering. Whenever I sensed that, I began to feel stuffy and distressed and then became so exhausted that I could not stay in one location for the longer period. Somehow, I seem to sense that the authority such as the religious leaders and emperors at that time trying to convey their power by creating these buildings. They intended money, weapons, and the authority would overpower everything.
　If a man is to confess himself to God, remorse for Christ’s bleeding tears, and truly respect, love and appreciate the Messiah, why was he kept to be exposed in the almost naked and humiliated form in public? Some are in even more sadistic forms, where crucified with arms and legs.
　If we see human being as a truly universal existence, I think the different directions should have been taken in the past two thousand years. It seems to me what the Christian cultures tell us is the enormous scale of The Pardoner's culture. My imagination tells me that I was hurt by all the past tyrants so much that the bitter horrible memories were still in my blood and that was why I became exhausted.
　I am going to Munich tomorrow, where my work is waiting for me. I enjoy and feel energized the most when I speak to my audience.

My wife arrived at Firenze Airport late last night. She is the managing director of my company, I.H.M., in charge of Finance and Accounting. She has been working with me almost since the start of the company; it's been 16 years now. My work has been personally rewarding these days. As a company, on the other hand, things haven't gotten easier. My wife has no time to sit back, she's always busy making ends meet. This time, she couldn't fly with me because she had to work to make sure our employees got paid. Four days later, she joined me in Europe.
　I went to the airport to pick up my wife at 9:00 p.m. Many of the bystanders were Japanese. Also about a third of the plane's passengers were Japanese. There are many foreign students studying Italian in Firenze, since standard Italian is most commonly spoken. That is probably one of the reasons why many Japanese tourists seem to be visiting here. I noticed that many tourists were middle-aged women.
　And so, once again, kissing my wife at the airport didn't happen as planned. I feel embarrassed and cannot act naturally when Japanese people are around.
　Starting today, we have two days to sightsee in Firenze. No work! My wife bought a guidebook, "How to Walk on Earth" (equivalent to "Lonely Planet" in English) at the airport and had made an elaborate travel schedule during the flight. Only thing missing is the flag that tour guides carry. Our Firenze tour had begun. She is in charge today. I will be quiet and let her lead.
　I soon understood that Firenze has many significant historical buildings within a small area. It wasn't so tiring to walk around to see them, although I am not so much of a walker. 　We started from Duomo or Cattedrale di S.Maria del Fiore, and then to Campanile di Giotto, Orsanmichele, Piazza Della Signoria, Palazzo Vecchio, and ended at Ponte Vecchio.
　Well, of course I know that I need to write about what my impressions were from today’s itinerary. But I will wait until I finish touring museums tomorrow. Otherwise I will make too many extreme comments, as I often do.

I have had all five meals at the hotel including breakfast this morning. I am finally getting tired of them, and asked a front clerk for a recommendation of a good spaghetti restaurant that tourists do not know about, and I was advised to go to a nearby restaurant. I went in to the restaurant around 12:40 pm, however there was hardly anyone there. I became anxious a little if this restaurant served good food, but eventually, many customers started coming in. They do seem local folks, who are mostly the regular customers and the restaurant became full in no time. I guess the lunchtime in Firenze starts after 1 pm.
　I played it safe and ordered a vegetable soup and spaghetti with meat sauce. I don't normally eat meat dish except this one, since perhaps the smell of the meat is removed. The vegetable soup was served, and it was very good. As I was enjoying the soup, I remembered some good old taste. I thought to myself, "Wait, what's this taste?! I have had this before." I tried hard to remember the taste I'd had long time ago. And finally I recalled the surprising old memories.
　It was 46 years ago. I remember the exact year since I was a sophomore at junior high school that time. When I was a sophomore, I lived in Gunma prefecture due to my father's job transfer. He was an official at the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and got transferred often times. I was the youngest among four of my brothers and sisters, where the oldest was a student preparing for college, the next oldest was a senior and the second youngest was a freshman at high school. They remained at the house in Yokohama because of their schools. I was the only one who moved to Maebashi with my parents.
　However, my mother was soon spending half of the month in Yokohama to take care of the children since the oldest daughter, a senior at high school was left to do much of the house work. Meantime, I was alone with my father and surprisingly, I was doing the cooking for the house. (None of my children believes this part of the story.) Among the few dishes I was able to cook, my father complimented me on the vegetable soup, which made me happy and I cooked it many times. I learned how to use salt and pepper, and I even thought I became pretty good at it.
　Of course, the soup I had today tasted much better, however this flavor brought me back some old memories and I became nostalgic about my late father.
　There was another incident that surprised me. The waiter asked me if I liked some house wine, and I thought to my self a glass of wine would not do any harm even in the daylight, and I said, "Please," without hesitation. What was brought in was a bottle full of red wine as seen in the picture. I looked around, and every table had a bottle of wine, which was opened and pored into the glasses. I asked, "May I have this wine as much as I like?"and the waiter told me yes. My old self would have said, "Wow!!", but now I am disciplined. I just had two glasses of wine, ate everything on my plate and had a cup of cappuccino. It cost me only 16 euro (about 1,800 yen) including all you can drink wine. Italy is a place for gourmet. It sounds contrary to what I said yesterday, however the restaurants with no Japanese tourists seem to have better deal.

I hear Firenze does have many tourist spots. However, I didn't bring any tour guide books with me, and feel guilty about going to sightseeing without waiting for my wife's arrival, I remained mostly in the hotel room since this morning, and I was writing a manuscript for Mikasashobo Co., Ltd. This book focuses mainly on the music therapy and photographs. I managed to complete this task, and now write this diary. I feel that I would have better things to do than staying inside of the hotel room all day, but I guess I do not like to go out of my way to do anything. However, I am impressed with the fact that I keep up with writing the diary. I guess I really enjoy writing.
　There are many Japanese guests in this hotel. I asked the waitress about them, and she told me that they finally returned. Because they had stopped coming for a while, it affected their businesses greatly. She used the word "returned" indicating that Japanese tourists are very much appreciated and important for them. I think Japanese should go travel abroad more and spend money overseas. Being well traveled rid of the islander mentality, which serves as a dual purpose. Why bother traveling unfriendly and unsafe countries by using tax money? I think spending money the way you and others enjoy will contribute more to globalization.

My turn was for 10:30 a.m.. The venue was in a large convention centre in Marina di massa of Tuscany which they said was famous for the bathing beach in summer. It was a neighboring town of Pisa of Leaning tower, one hour from Florence by car. The conference lasted for three days and there were less than 300 attendees. I was afraid it did not pay. Simultaneous interpreter’s booths and earphones were available and there seemed to be many lecturers from overseas.
　They said that this area was hit by a heavy storm several weeks ago and damaged by the terrible flood. They worried if they could hold this conference or not. However, maybe because of the theme, "Childbirth and Women" (it was not a conference on water birth), about seventy percent of the attendees were women and listened to me keenly. Thunderous applause after my role relieved my weariness as always. Furthermore a nun and an important looking priest came after me outside the venue just to tell me that the lecture was wonderful. I was pleased to be accepted because I talked about religious things and prayer. I was a little conscious about the third issue of photo collection whose theme would be "Water and Prayer".
　I excused myself to travel to Florence in the afternoon. I am going to work to finish some writing in the hotel until my wife comes on the 27th.

I am leaving today for a one-month seminar trip in Europe. Leaving Narita at one o'clock, arriving at Milan at six p.m. Milan time. After about two hours leaving for Pisa and when arrived at Pisa, it was after nine p.m. Picked up by car and when arrived at the hotel, it was 11 p.m., seven o'clock in the morning on the 25th Japan time. I was tired.
　The first day of the trip is always like this. This time I was traveling alone till the 27th. The baggage was heavy and I had no one to talk to, so it seemed like taking 1.5 times longer because it was more boring and tiring. Therefore I do not have anything to write, so I will write about my schedule starting tomorrow.

Starting today through October 29th, the long-awaited Crystal Photo Exhibition is held at Doi Photo Gallery, which is located on the first basement level of Kotsu-kaikan in Yurakucho. Since I am leaving for a month-long European seminar tour tomorrow, I attended the exhibition this afternoon for the first day.
　It was my idea that we had this photo exhibition. The number one reason is that I wanted to thank six of my staff members for their efforts of earnestly taking pictures in the cold refrigerator. The second reason is that I wanted to establish the art department for this technology for the time being. If that is established, we don’t have to worry about successors of this technology.
　The DPE technology which Doi Photo introduced to us is amazing. It may be so because of the fact that the size of the picture is more than a quarter, however, the quality, quantity, beauty, and the color developments of the pictures are certainly different from those of the quarter-plate size which I get used to see from the photo shop near our company. I have seen so many pictures for the past ten years, and I can assure you that they are about three times more beautiful than the regular ones.
　The admission is free, of course. I really would like everyone to come to this exhibition. Please see the beauty with your own eyes.

There were two seminar sessions, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, in Shibuya today. Mihama Co., Ltd, one of the largest distributors of Miki Prune, sponsored the seminar. Working for the company over 30 years, Ms. Hamada, looked at the most in her early 50's, surprised me revealing that she was actually at 67 years old. She looked so young that even I was tempted to take Miki Prune myself. The management of health food company has to stay young. (Well, I am so young at heart however...).
　The reason for having two sessions was that 600 applicant applied for 300 seats of the assembly hall. Since the make-up of audience, 95% women, was my favorite situation, it fueled my enthusiasm and I could deliver with no fatigue. All the participants were the sales women of Miki Prune and I was impressed with their unusual power. They would use their power to promote my love and appreciation theory as they did to market Miki Prune. It's wonderful day!

Combining with a house warming party of our new condominium, we had a directors meeting at home today. Although, it is common that management have a home party in the U.S., it is not the case in Japan. It may attribute to the difference in housing situations. In Japan, even for a president of company, it is not easy to live in a house with a space for a meeting or a party to invite employees.
　My place is not an exception but large enough for two of us, my wife and myself. (Although, two grown up sons have returned and been staying with us temporarily.) Because of the beautiful ocean view, I have been looking forward to inviting the executives of my companies. Then, today's meeting has been finally materialized.
　After the business meeting was a banquet by natural consequence. Fresh matsutake (Japanese bellend known for its savor) just arrived from the chief priest of Senbutsu Temple in Yamaguchi Prefecture and fresh crop of Koshihikari (a popular breed of rice) just came from Niigata Himuka Company. Ms. Kawashima, statutory auditor of my company, displayed her cooking skill and prepared matsutake rice (seasoned steam rice with matsutake) for us. The quality of ingredients was overwhelming and did not require much of flavoring. I was so glad that I was Japanese. From October 24, I will be on a European tour for a month. I cannot have Japanese cuisine for a while. Matsutake rice, grilled sanma (Japanese brevoort), bottled sea urchin, fried shrimps and oysters, and stewed fresh vegetables, Ms. Kawashima cooked all the food that I liked. Well, now I have to tell you that she is such a wonderful big sister of mine. Her figure in the kitchen showed striking resemblance to our past mother deceased during New Year holiday season last year. I felt like my mother was still here to support me. Thank you big sister!

Mr. Funai was good and lively. It had been a while since I last saw Mr. Funai. When I asked Mr. Funai, responding to the request from Mr. Yun of KBS for Mr. Funai's interview, Mr.Funai readily accepted, and we all met at New Takanawa Prince Hotel yesterday.
　Mr. Funai spared an hour for the interview from Mr. Yun before his lecture started. I just felt humble to Mr. Funai's unfailing confidence and thoughtfulness to me.
　It was 12 years ago that Mr. Funai came to my little office in Gotanda, a 2 DK apartment. Since that time, he has always been devoted himself to look for something new that he believes genuine and made every minute count to introduce it to the world. My case was brought by introduction of Mr. Kondo, the president of Total Health Design Co., Ltd.
　I was told that Mr. Kondo was bringing someone, but I never imagined that it was Mr. Funai and I made him wait so long (I was in the middle of hado counseling for a person with a serious disease which was prolonged). Though I remember breaking into a cold sweat. Mr. Funai was not annoyed a bit and listened to me with a smile. Ever since then I have never missed Mr. Funai’s smile.
　Mr. Funai kindly endorsed my first book, Prelude of Hado Age, commenting as "it was [Introduction to the 21st Century] from my experience, I recommend this book".
　Recently I read again the Mr. Funai's comment, and I was surprised and moved. The comment begins with saying, "I believe everything you read in this book is correct" and it ends as saying "anyway my intuition tells me that the 21st century will become Hado age and this book is an ultimate introductory book for it. So I most cordially recommend this book". Mr. Funai endorsed my first book truly with confidence from the start to the end.
　Mr. Funai who was then already a major economist supported Hado which was not a major technology nor theory, a new and unknown amateur named Emoto and a strange book published by a small company called Sun Road Co., Ltd.. I understand that great courage and a big decision were needed. I have a feeling of great respect for his insight.
　After the inverview, Mr. Yun told me happy news.
"I just received acceptance from Mr.Funai, but we are going to invite Mr.Funai to Korea." If Mr. Funai's economic view toward the 21st century could give a culture shock to the Korean economic circle who are doing their utmost to catch up with and get ahead of Japan, Korea would not have to take a long way that Japan took, but would be able to achieve a healthy growth. I left New Takanawa Prince Hotel wishing Mr.Yun's plan a great success.

It was a very busy day today. First of all, I had a meeting with Ms. Hiromi Nakano at 10 o'clock in the morning. As many of you may already know her, her profile is as follows:

My sweet home is located in Shinurayasu. I have been living in this town over 15 years. It takes only 20 minutes to Tokyo Station by Japan Railways Keiyo Line, 30 minutes and 40 minutes drive to Narita Airport and Haneda Airport respectively. This is the best location for a frequent international/domestic business traveler like myself.
　It's close to the Tokyo Disney Land and I can view its fireworks from 8:30 pm every night. I have been renting a residence until I bought a condominium and moved in the place on September 15 this year. Now I've gotten even closer to the ocean. Since my wife loves heights, we have chosen a room on the top floor of 19-story high-rise tower. Form the window I can enjoy the entire picture of Tokyo Bay. I adore an ocean view and this is such a joyful environment to spend my daily life. From the viewpoint of fuen shui, some people might question the dwelling character of high floor units especially of the building stood on landfill. However, we decided to prioritize our personal preference this time.
　At 10 am in the morning, the KBS shooting team arrived at our new place. When they were in Japan last time, I was approached a shooting at home. However, we decided to do it at our new place if we do it at all. That's why the shooting was rescheduled to start today. After standing at the trance and looking at the view for a while, Mr. Yun, CEO and producer, said admiringly, "This is so wonderful, I would not mind trading my house in Seoul and moving here." It seems he totally fell in love with this place.
　The shooting went on smoothly in this relaxing atmosphere. They enjoyed my wife's homemade bibimbap (Korean rice mixed with seasoned vegetables) and said, "You ought to have a patent on this recipe" in complement. My cats are all panicked at this and did not come out the closet. We have two cats and both are very shy to strangers. For the shooting, I was planning to talk having my cats on my knees but it did not work out that way. The shooting will continue till Saturday, October 18.

A KBS interview group has been visiting from Korea since yesterday---came to Fukuoka and interviewed Dr. Takao of Kyushu University yesterday. Dr. Takao and I are about the same age and we have known each other for more than five years. Dr. Takao is a chemistry professor, but he has been active in the scope of philosophy. His the new Cosmo Biology of Brain Paradigm Revolution(Tokuma Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd.) is one great work.
　The reason why KBS came to interview Dr. Takao is that he has scientifically proven data by the newest ICP mass spectroscope regarding “the effect of thanking water”. This experiment was performed under Doctor’s decision and was not my request or anything. I have not quite grasped everything about it, but the analysis of water contents resulted in the same as my experiment depending on the words stuck on to the water container.
　This is the third visit to Japan for KBS. On July 25, they even came to Sea of Galilee. They have diligently followed me and they are now thinking about releasing about three one-hour programme to start next month or the month after next.
　KBS is equivalent to NHK in Korea. I have not heard from NHK, but this KBS's positive approach is new excitement to me. So I hope I can provide them the best I can with the arrangements and the materials they need during their interview till the 18th. Tomorrow a session of shooting is scheduled in my house.

I will work all day at home today proofreading and more writing for Tokuma Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd.. I will definitely have to finish up today. When I talked to Ms. Toyoshima last time, she sounded like coming to my house to get the manuscript. Since this morning I had been red-penciling and typing something new to add to my manuscript in my study on the 19th floor with a view of Tokyo Bay....
　In the evening Ms. Toyoshima called and she said she would after all like to come and get the manuscript. She said she would come at 7:30 p.m.....
　Ms. Toyoshima left at 9:00 p.m. and I have not finished it yet---no time for diary today. I will come back again tomorrow!

After one week-long business trip to Okinawa and Korea, I returned home last evening. What was waiting for me was the final version of the manuscript, a book titled The Image of Love Given by Water, which is scheduled to be published from Tokuma Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd. at the end of October. A note was left, requesting me to proofread and touch it up by October 15th.
　I was too tired to tackle the task that night, and I went to bed early. On the next morning, I took a Shinkansen bullet train at 9:13 am bound for Osaka to attend a special seminar held at Japan Holistic Medical Society. I used the two-hour travel time to do the proofreading.
　When I got to a seminar location in Higashiosaka City at 12:30 pm, Dr. Ryoichi Obitsu, who is a board chairman of this organization, was there already, and I enjoyed a pleasant conversation with him for the first time in a long while. He is a great doctor who holds many important positions and is an extremely busy man, however he seems always to be smiling, humble and polite to everyone around him, which are the qualities I respect about him very much.
　In front of Dr. Obitsu, I was the main speaker today, and given the opportunity to talk passionately about the vibration medical science. At the seminar, there were 350 attendees, mainly women, who were eagerly taking notes, listening to my lecture. As expected, most of their professionals are in some way related to the alternative medicine, and they were listening to every speaker's lecture very carefully. I found them very serious learners.
　When the panel discussion was facilitated by three lecturers, including Dr. Obitsu, we accepted questions from the audience. The female audiences had questions for me about crystals one after another, and I felt a little sorry for other speakers. However, this indicates how the public is interested in the water crystal technology, and I guess it can't be helped.
　I was asked to attend the gathering afterwards, and I did so as I felt I should. I finally got on a Shinkansen bullet train at 8:30 pm and headed home. Nozomi (the bullet train's name) was too crowded to permit me to even open the manuscripts, and I had no time to check them in any case. I just tried to sleep but couldn’t, and I finally got home at 11:30 pm. I was really exhausted by then. I had planned a day off tomorrow in advance, which worked out fine, however I feel I should no longer plan my work schedule this tight.

Yesterday and today, we had autographing sessions at the Kyobo Book Center, the largest bookstore in Korea. We had a short seminar, a questions and answers session (a Q&A session), and an autographing session. We had the first autographing session when we were here before. So, this is the second session we have in Korea. The bookstore chain we had the first session, just opened new mega-bookstore with largest floor space in East Asia.
　The floor space of the first book store was 2,700 tsubos (1 tsubo is about 3.3�u). The new store opened in this May this year was 3,600 tsubos. For one floor space of bookstore, it is the largest in East Asia. The Shinjuku South Store of Kinokuniya Company, Ltd. is known for its size. However, it is only 1,430 tsubo. Now you know, how big the Korean Store is.
　The Tree Planting People Publishing Co. organized this seminar to celebrate the publication of Korean translation of The Message from Water. Each site had an event corner set up for the session. Both sites were fully seated and a rally of questions and answers continued fairly long.
I love Q & A sessions. The interactions of earnest questions and sincere answers have given me so many new ideas and thoughts. How many Q & A sessions have I gone through in the last three years? How many times in the sessions, did I get inspiration? Especially in seminars abroad, Q & A session is a must. Just listening is not their style. They try to participate and clear all the questions they had during the session.
　It has not been the case in Japan. 　Shyness and reserved attitude may be the national character of Japanese. 　However, in my opinion, it is about a time for Japanese to learn to ask questions and speak up their opinions like people of the West do. At the same time, I have my share of responsibility. When I speak in a seminar in Japan, I am full of things to say and tend to keep talking all the hours. From now on, if I have 2 hours for a seminar, I would like to offer 30 minutes to a Q & A session. So, when you come to our seminar next time, please be prepared to participate. Let's improve each other!

I heard that they seldom find a paid seminar in Korea. So when I proposed we hold a business seminar for 10,000 yen, Mr.Mizuno whom I introduced in my previous diary strongly opposed. But my thinking was that I have great expectations for Korea and it is not a good custom for the cultural development of the country that it is OK to be free to gain information of value. In fact, that custom seems to have started since lecturers were used to gather people for elections. If that is so, you can say such a custom may be causing the structural bribery among Korean politicians and I even felt more strongly that I had to choose to hold a paid seminar.
　It was the first seminar in Korea. We chose for the venue the first-class hotel, Hyatt Korea, The attendance of 50 people could have been just enough to pay for 500,000 yen, the venue fee, and the advertisement plus other expenses. The result was today … "do as the Romans do". There were only nine paid attendees. Though about 10 of Mr. Mizuno's friends came to play the role of fake audience, a lot of gorgeously displayed cakes, candy, sandwiches and fruit were left untouched and my wife gave a rueful look and was having bites of the cake. After all today the seminar was sponsored and hosted by her company, Hado Kyoikusha Co., Ltd..
　Of course I did no get defeated. I talked from 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.. I got irritated when the fake attendees left while I was talking, but as expected, the paid attendees were listening with keen interest. Some of them nodded the head and I appreciated their look of admiration.
　Five hours passed quickly and soon came to closing time. Six out of nine attendees decided to join us for dinner. That was good. The one who greeted us first was the one who was actively making comments and nodding the head during the lecture. He came with his wife all the way from a distant town by plane. They told us,
　"I am an ob-gyn (obstetrician and gynecologist), but I recently quit practice. One of the reasons is that I read Water Knows Answer. I am a Christian but I had to perform abortions. Hospitals had to do it on demand to stay in business. As Dr. Emoto said today, medical profession should be the benevolent art, but the current situation is that most are not.
　I am preparing now to be working with alternative healthcare using a Hado measuring equipment like MRA. Dr. Emoto, I appreciate your advice and support".
　 　He talked from heart and kept on sometimes as if he were making a confession. I could not help being move to tears by listening to him. My wife who was sitting next to me was the same. And of course I promised that I would support him as much as I could. Mr. Otake will be appointed to take care of him.
　The other four members as well were wonderful. One company makes ultrasonically treated water and we decided to visit the company the day after tomorrow.
　When my wife whispered to me that the today's investment was worthwhile, I was in tears again.

Behind all the events planned in Korea, there was support of a person. The name of the person is Mr. Masayuki Mizuno. He is Japanese and his wife is Korean. They have three daughters. They got married about ten years ago. They lived for a while in Sapporo where Mr. Mizuno's families were, but about two years ago they moved to Mrs. Mizuno's family's place to live in Korea.
　Because of their marriage, Mr. Mizuno had wished to bridge between Japan and Korea. However the reality was against his wish difficult and he could not find such a thing but stayed busy making ends meet. He one day read a book called Water Knows the Answer and was moved. He thought he wanted to publish this book. He investigated and found that Three Planting People Publishing Co. had already acquired its copyright and was getting ready to publish it. He did not give up and when he learned that Messages from Water had not been published in Korea, he wrote an enthusiastic letter to the president of Hado Kyoikusha Co., Ltd., my wife. He succeeded at meeting her and his enthusiasm persuaded her finally to appoint him as the agent to publish the book.
　It's been one year since then. The day before yesterday, the Korean version of Messages from Water was published. Thanks to Mr.Mizuno, broadcasting companies such as KBC and MBC came to Japan for interviews and events like this week were realized. The presence of such a being like an agent for you speaking the language makes a big difference to the success of your work in a foreign country. I look forward to Korean Version, Hado Business School tomorrow.

Today from 10 a.m., I gave a seminar at the large hall of church mainly for its members. Preceding my seminar was a performance of Alpine bell by mentally retarded children. They were so earnest and into the performance. It was very moving.
　Is it her first performance in front of huge audience? The girl who stood the second from the left made me wonder. Staring at the conductor, the girl was playing in tears overwhelmed by excitement and intension. Naturally, I was in tears in sympathy as well.
　Following the Alpine bell was a chorus by the pupils from the church's grade school. What beautiful sopranos. The audience of 500 people was responding with big applause to the well-practiced performance.
　As soon as I caught the intro of the last song, I instantly knew "this is a song about water". Because I was coming, the church scheduled the day with water-related concerts and seminars. All the events were in Korean and I could not grasp a bit of them. However, music is universal. I was convinced that music is lingra franca you can understand without any knowledge of language. (Later on, I was told that the last chorus was "water music"composed specially for today's event.）
　It was a seminar where the undersecretary of the Environment Agency was attending also. After finishing my part, I headed for the site of the next seminar by car. The next seminar was at another church of the same confession. It was a beautiful church built on the perch and one-hour away from the downtown Seoul.
　About 100 church members waiting for us were rather in older generations. Some of them spoke Japanese and gave us a kind word in Japanese. To our surprise, they burst into applause or said arigato ("thank you" in Japanese) to us right in the middle of the discussion. It seems that Korean expresses themselves more freely than Japanese. You might call it more international.
　I have been always hoping that Japanese can overcome so called islander's mentality, the shyness to express their feelings worrying too much about how they look to the eyes of others.
　 　Well, folks, it's been another long day.

We left Naha for Incheon International Airport in Soul this morning by taking Asiana Airlines. It took us a little over two hours and seems to be taking less time to get there than returning to Narita. Among the people waiting for us at the airport were two nuns from a church and Mr. Otake, a new managing director of I.H.M., who is assisting our business in Soul during this trip. He has been overseeing the business activities since October. Of course, he still acts as a president of I.H.M. Trading Co., Ltd.
　This is the first time Mr. Otake visits Korea and he is very excited about it. We are having the first business seminar here on October 9th, and asked him to come along since we may be given many business opportunities.
　I have not gotten over the cold yet, but it cannot be helped because I have been working so many days without a break.Today, we arrived at the location of the seminar, a monastery at 2:00 pm, and started a seminar at 2:30 pm. This seminar ran for two and a half hours. On the stage, I was coughing during the seminar, which may have made the audience worry about me, and I feel sorry about that.
　As I was speaking in front of the two hundred nuns about Love and Thanks,I came to feel their intense emotions, which were passed on to my body and I received intense energy from them. At times,I felt so moved that I was lost for words. Let me share some stories with you:
　"I learned to know that the role human beings should play in this world is to give the fullest love to all states of existence.In order to receive the love gracefully,you should also have the quality of thanks.With Love and thanks,then the harmony should follow."
　The four hundred eyes focused on me intensely,and they seemed to be nodding slowly. They gave nods of relief and affirmation as if to show the choice they made in their lives was not wrong. When I thought, "Yes, as one might say, they are the true professionals of Love and Thanks"; I found myself at a loss for words, trying very hard to keep myself from crying.
　After my speech, some twenty choir members sang songs for us. The pure and beautiful voice was as if that of angels singing. Tears welled up in my eyes again.
　That night,we enjoyed dinner at a Korean restaurant near the hotel.It was wonderfully delicious and inexpensive.Korean style, mainly vegetable dishes were brought in to our large table one after another and it cost only about 2,000 yen per person (including beer). I am now able to restore my spirits for tomorrow.

Today, we had an Okinawa Seminar, first time in two years. When we arrived at the Naha Airport a little past noon, Mr. Kazuhiro Nakamura, a Hado instructor and ex-manager of HCC Okinawa, welcomed us with his familiar smile. Whenever we have an event in Okinawa, Mr. Nakamura coordinates it for us. It’s been over 8 years since we have been working together in this style. He used to organize events by himself. But recently, he is dedicating himself to a role of a Hado instructor and a Hado big brother as a mentor to his young fellows in Okinawa.
　The organizer of today's seminar was Mr.Shinya who was a supporter of the previous seminar. He was a hairdresser back then and kind enough to cut my hair at the deck of the hotel we were staying. Because of the tight schedule, I did not even have a time for haircut and my hair was fairly overgrown. In addition, he took us to a wonderful young female fortuneteller he knew.
　Her name was Ms.Kumiko. I remember that she was very capable (I took my wife and my son with me to visit her. And quite a few of what she had told us proved to be true afterwards.)
　This time, I did not know who was the organizer until I was approached by Mr. Shinya saying, "It's glad to see you again, Mr.Emoto" at the Yomitan Village Culture Center (close to the famous communication base nicknamed "elephants enclosure") where we had the seminar. Right after the previous seminar, he married to Ms.Kumiko. Now, they have one-year-old daughter and the second baby coming due next month. Mr.Shinya stopped hairdressing and institutionalized his wife's business. Now he is the president of company with three employees and his business is on the rails.
　All these things totally made a sense to me. I had a very strong impression of these two people two years ago and had been looking forward to seeing them again someday. What I think about them is a reflection of what they think about me. Their wish to see me became the source of their motivation to organize my seminar this time.
　So, their seminar was real success. Especially, young female participants, so visible in the conference room, were intensive listeners of my speech. Oh, what a crowd at the autograph session. I felt as if I am getting tenosynovitis. I received an official request for a seminar in coming April from another organization. I can come back to my favorite Okinawa next year again. Thank you Mr.Shinya and Ms.Kumiko and best wishes to the health of your new baby!

I am leaving for another series of seminars tomorrow. In the evening of Sunday, October 5, there will be a seminar in Okinawa Yomitan Village Culture Center. It has been two years since the last Okinawa seminar and I am looking forward to it. As many people do, I like Okinawa, especially its climate and people. This time it is expected to have the largest audience and they rented a seminar hall with a capacity of 700.
　On the next day, I will leave Naha Airport for Seoul. I am expecting to be in Incheon International Airport around noon and I will go for a seminar for two thirty at the No. 1 church in Seoul in Myeongdong. With one more seminar on the following day in another church of the same sector, in total I have three seminars scheduled.
　The publication seminar of Messages from Water (Korean version) is on October 8, a workshop for business associates on October 9, talk shows and book signing sessions on October 10 and 11 in a giant book store that has recently opened in Seoul. As you can see, it is quite tight.
　Actually in Korea Water Knows the Answer was published before Messages from Water. It was in August last year. It hit the best-seller list. Despite the population of two fifths of Japan and the publication of a year later than in Japan, 250,000 copies had been sold at the time of May when I visited Korea, exceeding 240,000 copies sold in Japan.
　I do not know yet what made it happen, but I feel Korea is speeding up in many aspects and Japan may need to be pressured.
　The publisher of the book is ‘Tree Planting People Publishing Co.’. As its name, they started publication activities based on the perspective of new nation building. It is a new company led by a lady president. My book was their first best-seller and it brought them momentum. And they proceeded to publish Messages from Water.
　As I wrote in the diary of September 5, it is my plan to focus on Korea next year because it is my wish that some day I could go to North Korea and have a lecture meeting. They are the countries that share the same language.

I am sorry, everyone, for the break of three days. As might be expected, I was very exhausted.
　Busy days continued after September 28, the last day of the nine-day seminar:
　On September 29, I had a visitor from Melbourne, Australia and a nice visit of Ms. Sometani, a Hado instructor　after a long interval, and also had a meeting with Ms.Toyoshima from Tokuma Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd. to finalize the book which will be issued at the end of this month.
　On September 30, I joined my daughter, Yoko who had been visiting her husband’s family in Futtsu, Chiba for the grandson’s ‘Omiyamairi’ and I visited my dear son-in-law’s family home for the first time. We visited a shrine nearby, and then went to a local photo studio for the ceremonial photo taking. In the afternoon we visited the family grave in the temple which is also adjacent. Everything is close to one another and very convenient in a small city. In the evening, fully fed a seafood feast of Tokyo Bay, we three generation troupe returned to the town of Urayasu across Tokyo Bay in the car that my dear son-in-law drove.
　The family of my son-in-law processes and sells seafood. I hear their family business main site was at　Urayasu and they used to go back and forth across the bay. I also grew up in Honmoku, Yokohama　right by a fisherman town and my mother came from Sotobou. We became relatives across Tokyo Bay. And it is interesting that Miss Emoto (the meaning relates to river) married to Mr.Yamamoto(the meaning relates to mountain), and Riku(the meaning relates to land) was born. And it was just coincident that I found the family crest on haori that Riku was wearing for ‘Omiyamairi’ was the same as the Emoto’s family crest, Circle and Hawk wings. This is the same crest as Kuranosuke Oishi’s. This marriage was like Chushingura. (Mountain!! River!!) We will be the family who would leave a beautiful story that is going to be told for ever.
　On October 1, I was engaged in writing at home. I had to write 10,000 words within that day and managed to make it through. Actually I moved on the 15th last month to a high-rise condominium newly built by the seaside of Urayasu. The view of Tokyo Bay from the 19th floor is magnificent and I can write! After all I can say that I am in the best condition near the water.
　On October 2, I came to the office, but I was tired. I get easily tired lately when I think about something business. Is it the age? Anyway I came to feel the need of thinking about a good successor.