I must admit that I am totally exhausted from the tightest schedule of 13 consecutive days from March 15 to March 26. Luckily, however, I am going to take a three days' holiday starting today in Amsterdam with my daughter and grandson, and my wife who has joined them ahead to wait for me to arrive. (Please visit my diary dated November 18 for my grandson's picture, nine months old then.)
I have recovered and healed. Look at the picture below!!

That's right. My grandson, Riku can walk now. Nothing more needs to be explained, does it? I will come back for a diary next on March 30 when I go back to Japan.

We ended up going to sleep around 3:30. But I got up at 8:00 and had breakfast by myself. (Mr. Otake chose sleeping over breakfast..., which is what I would have done if I was younger. But after turning 60 years old, no matter what I do I always wake up in the morning). At 10:00, the people from the publishing company brought a team of TV interviewers, which started our action of the day. There were local TV crew and another crew, which brought video camera from Madrid. This went on until about 13:00.

We had a delicious lunch at a seafood restaurant near our hotel. I must say that when I have a long trip abroad, what I look forward to the most is the meals. In Spain, I found nothing foreign in their ways of cooking and because the country is facing the ocean, their seafood is excellent, so I have no problem with their meals. As it happened last time, I never felt an urge to go to a Japanese restaurant. From what I experienced so far, Japan and Spain have a similar kind of weather as well. Perhaps 'food' came from the word 'fudo' (which means climate in Japanese).
A lot more happened after our meal. At the hotel, there were 5 groups of reporters, one coming after another to do an interview. There were inevitably repeated questions, but I try to cite from different sources for the same answer, so that it won’t be too boring for the interpreter. And I presume that each medium wants to write something different from others as well. So I never think, "It's the same question again, I'm sick of it". But since I have to be more creative, it becomes exhausting.
From 17:00, I got into a circle with 10 other people and had a round-table talk. The publishing company selected a few readers who were impressed by my books, and they openly asked questions. At times like this I feel natural, which often raises different ideas in mind, so it was truly instructive. I decided to do a meeting of a similar sort as soon as I return to Japan.

From 19:30, there was a seminar at a hall in a shopping mall nearby. When we got there just on time, there was a crowd of people waiting for us. There were at least 150 people, but only 80 seats were available, so again, we had people who were on the floor, standing, and those who could not get in.
We finished the seminar at 21:00 and had an autograph session for 30 minutes, which definitely exhausted me. But after 22:00 there were more than 10 people at our good bye dinner. I had a bit of wine which made me jolly, and I found myself singing with strange accents 'Quizas, Quizas' and 'Cachito', which are Spanish songs that were popular in Japan 40 years ago. I don't think this habit is ever going to change.
I felt I had a good 'grasp' during this Spanish seminar tour. It seems as though the terrorist incident in Madrid made this sense especially strong. This is the sense that people are looking for what is really true, and I again felt it from people of different countries.

Newspaper article in Spain

From Liechtenstein to the Zurich Airport, it is about 130 km, which roughly takes one and a half hour to drive. So from now on, the Zurich Airport will be the 'chief post' where I'll stop by for my further journey in Europe. My wife, the executive manager Mr. Otake, and I got to the Zurich Airport with Rasmus’ car, and we each went on our own way. My wife flew to Amsterdam on the KLM Royal Dutch Airlines where our daughter and our grandson await; Mr. Otake got on the Lufthansa Airlines to Barcelona via Munchen (because of the cheaper ticket) and I went straight to Barcelona on the Liberia Airlines.
That meant that starting from today, I would have been away from my wife and was planning to travel to ‘the country of passion’, Spain with Mr. Otake for 3 days. I was looking forward to the two-men trip, but it turned out to be quite far from what I expected. A very hectic schedule was waiting for us.
We got to Barcelona late and the next day on the 25th, we set out to Girona at 10:00. Girona is an old town that lies 100 km away in the north of Barcelona, and we arranged it in our schedule to keep the promise we made with Ms. Maria Rose in last November. (Please read the diary on November 24, 2003 to find out more about it.)
We were fortunate to be blessed with a beautiful weather, and the car strode pleasantly through the agricultural fields while we saw the Pyrenees in the distance. Then, after we arrived at Girona at 11:30, a fearsome schedule was waiting for us.
First of all, there was a seminar at the University of Girona from 12:30. About 60 people from the university and those working in alternative medical service attended the seminar. The interpreter was Mr. Yoshida who graduated overseas and is originally from Mie. Since he studied philosophy as his major he knew various jargons, so he did a very good job with the interpretation.

When that was over at 14:00, two people from the city hall, a professor from the university, Ms. Maria Rose and we all had a late lunch. We heard that all the events in Girona were planned by Ms. Maria Rose herself, so I got an impression that she is an influential woman that is well respected by everybody, even though she is about to turn 80 years old.
After the lunch we walked to Ms. Maria Rose’s house, and found that the sight of the city was quite beautiful, so we stopped for a while and took some pictures.

As we arrived at her house, people were waiting in a big crowd. Among them, Ms. Marta, a painter whom I met last year and who speaks good Japanese, and her friend Ms. Azusa who practices Kado (the Japanese art of flower arrangement) were there. They welcomed us with enthusiastic Japanese.

Now the real hassle began. I can’t count how many interviews we had until 19:30, when we had a seminar at a place that seemed like the city hall. As we ended the seminar to which again many people attended, finished the dinner with a circle of people, and went back to the hotel in Barcelona, it was already past 2:00 am. (To be continued)

The main purpose of the trip to Europe was this! A plan to establish a new company with research center in Liechtenstein, a small country located at the center of Europe, has been in progress and today was the scheduled opening date of the office.

My initial plan was to set up a research center in Wien. However, according to the advise of Rasmus Gaupp-Berghausen, a regional manager in Europe, we decided to locate the center in Liechtenstein. I have known Rasmus for three years, first, by the introduction of his father. Back then, he was studying water at advanced grogram at the University of Wien.
His father, Mr. Georg Gaupp, has been my supporter since I started seminars in Europe. He organized my seminar in Austria a couple of times. However, studying water was Rasmus' own idea, not his father's. He wanted to study water so badly.
Finally, he had chance to take training courses twice at IHM in Tokyo and learned photo techniques. Although delayed slightly from original schedule, his center is opening now.
Of course, it was also my dream to establish a research center in Europe. I opened a center named 'Wise Crystal', an NPO organization, in Zurich, Swiss. However, I had to give up the center later. So, this time, I learned from the mistake.
Liechtenstein is a small county with only about 30,000 people in an area as small as the Shodo Island in Japan. Though, it is a full-fledged independent country. On my first day of my stay at Liechtenstein, I paid a courtesy call to the prince and asked his corporation with our project. He kindly accepted our request. The Gaupps lives in Austria. However, the family has been associated with the royal family. The Gaupps's connection made it possible for me to meet the price today.

With His Highness Prince Michael of Liechtenstein

I wanted to name the company IHM Europe. However, there has already been a similar trade name. So, we named the company, 'Hado Life Europe'. Either way, my long-time dream of gaining worldwide popularity with hado and crystal photos made a tangible first step. Powerful members such as Konrad Halbig from Germany, Giorgio Benedetti from Swiss, and Burgi Sedlak from Austria also gathered to celebrate the opening of new office.

Opening of the new office of Hado Life Europe

From the left to the right, Masaru Emoto,
Burgi Sedlak and Konrad Halbig

From the left to the right, Georg Gaupp,
Akihiro Otake and Rasmus Gaupp-Berghausen

New office/laboratory of Hado Life Europe

Please look forward to seeing new water crystal photos from the new center!

Serbia, that is former Yugoslavia, had suffered spate of civil wars and after all it was attacked by NATO, only five years ago. I heard there had been a conflict in Kosovo province right before my visit (actually I have not found out yet what happened). It is still a politically unstable country.
Under such circumstances in Serbia, the Serbian version of "The Message from Water" was published. It has been two months already. This Serbian version was delivered to me. I can say that is the reason why I thought about visiting this place. But how could I imagine a riot would occur when and where I was?
Four young people who manage the publishing company came to the airport. Sonya who had been a liaison dealing with the book and three others seemed to be running the company in partnership. I heard that Sonya had studied in Japan for about one year through the International Goodwill Association.

Four young people I met in Serbia.
The river flowing behind us is the Danube.
The building behind the river has scars of air bombing.

Along the road from the airport to the city center, there were remains of air bombing, and while I heard what they explained how it was, I was disturbed so much that I could not accept it as just a matter of fact with others. Like a counterpunch, the story punched me as I had been feeling serious threats about the current situation in the world while traveling around for world peace.
In a small seminar room were many highly educated people packed standing and sitting, with full of heat. Some people unfortunately could not enter and had to go home. I think because of this I talked with more spirit than usual for a success. No one left his/her chair during the presentation and some people stood for two hours and a half after all till the session for Q and A.
To be regretted, I felt the need for arrangements with more leeway in many aspects. Anyway those four were really pure, brave people who would lead this country strongly toward the future. I felt determined that I would like to visit them there often to support.

Slovenia is a country with a population of two million people, and a size of an area that is comparable to the island of Shikoku in Japan. In 1991, they realized their long lasting dream by becoming an independent state from former Yougoslavia, and for the first time, recorded its name on the world map. The capital is called Ljubljana and that was where I landed.
Since this trip was short, I had to work most of the time and I did not get a chance to wander around the city. But from what I hear, it is a beautiful city where a lot of tourists visit, and it is a place where nature and art exist in harmony.
A young lady from the publishing company and a translator named Caroline, who studied in Japan for about a year, came to pick me up at the airport. To sidetrack a bit, as it was the case in Warsaw and Serbia, there were several students who are in Japan studying with the courtesy of International Friendship Association. They take on the role of connecting their native country and Japan in one way or another, and I felt that this is quite a nice system.
In Slovenia, the schedule included an interview with the press, five interviews for the television and the magazines, one seminar, and one ceremony where we prayed to a lake with the local organization. It was a very tight schedule, but everyone responded with such welcome and passion that I had no time to feel exhausted and two days flew away.

Seminar in Slovenia

A Ceremony to pray for water led by Ales,
who kindly came to the Sea of Galilee in Israel
to help our Ceremony on July 25, 2003.

Also here, the Slovenian version of "Messages from Water" was published and introduced in the seminar halls for the first time. What was especially impressive was when a local scientist named Jamsek (who wrote the preface for the Slovenian version of the book) told me that "I'm an old man who's 78 years old, but I still regard myself as a scientist. In the past, I used to work in a high position at the Academy of Science in Geneva for 30 years. But it was not interesting so I was never happy. However, now that I encountered your book, and now that I was able to write the preface in Slovenian, you don’t know how much you made me happy and delighted, I thank you." This moved me to tears.

Dr. Jamsek on the left

This was my first visit to Budapest, where four of my hosts were all waiting for me at the airport; An Interpreter/guide, Ms. Michiyo Tokunaga and her husband Ilhan, and Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs, a publisher for the Hungarian version of "Messages from Water."

Mr. & Mrs. Tominaga on the right,
Mr. & Mrs. Jacob on the left.

Ms. Tominaga originally came to this country to study music thirteen years ago and her husband is also a musician. They have three children and two of their younger sons are twin brothers. She was studying here to be a vocalist, fell in love with a handsome partner who shared the same interest and had three beautiful children, leading a very happy life. It may be a familiar story but they are a wonderful couple for the sake of friendship between Japan and Hungary.
I was surprised to see the Hungarian version of this book was already completed. I learned that the books just came out of print shop yesterday. I guess they made sure to make it in time for my visit here. I just signed a contract with them two months ago, and the book looks wonderful.
I also learned something new during this visit. I did not know that Hungarians were based on the ethnicities of Asian people. 'Hun' of Hungarian means Huns, who are related to Mongolian, which means that they share similar hado with Japanese.
I stayed there only one day, however I enjoyed a hot springs at the hotel the next morning with Mr. Jacobs and was able to build a very close friendship with him. I would like to thank Ms. Michiyo Tominaga for arranging this wonderful trip. Thank you again.

I changed the train at Frankfurt yesterday. Then, today, I arrived at Poland Warsaw airport after 11 p.m. It was hard for me to trip 18 hours from Narita. But soon after I saw the smile of Mr. Adam, who came to the airport to pick me up, I got fine.
Mr. Adam is a publisher of "Message from Water" in Poland. He is a multi-talented Polish. His original work is clothing business. He is a great clothing dealer, who manages 5 or 6 shops in Warsaw, and has about 150 workers. On the other hand, he also deals with music business, and he himself is a singer, musician, and composer, who released a few CDs. Recently he got acquainted with Paulo Coelho, the author of "Alchemist", and he got the copy-right for the production of the musical of "Alchemist". For the preparation of the musical, he is going all over the world busily.

About 6 months ago, when Mr. Adam came to Japan, he enthusiastically talked to me about ADAM GEE. ADAM GEE is a T-shirt on which the water crystals are printed. This time, I saw the sample of the T-shirt. ADAM GEE is a sequined and sophisticated T-shirt. Mr. Adam wants to sell the T-shirt all over the world. As Mr. Adam, in Europe, there are many business people who hope to incorporate the shape of the water crystals into the design of their products. Unlike Japanese people, they accept the artistic value of the water crystals. Why on earth is there such a difference?

The Polish version of "Message from Water" will be published in October. I promised Mr. Adam to come back when the book will be published, and I finished the visit of Poland for a day.

I am leaving for Warsaw, Poland by a flight departing at 12:25 pm today. Afterwards, I will be visiting Hungary, Slovene, Serbia, Liechtenstein, and Spain. I will be returning to Japan on 30th. Except for Liechtenstein, the purpose of trip is relating to "The Message from Water" -- either publication of translation, seminars, or the preparation of these.
This is my first trip to Eastern Europe. As we all know, these countries have gone through painful war history, from which I will be learning lessens. Also, in Spain, just hit by a terrorist attach, I will be visiting Madrid, Barcelona and Girona in the suburb of Barcelona. I would like to report on the people in Spain right after the attack in my web page.
However, please excuse me if I cannot report everyday, since my schedule is tight as usual.
I will be visiting Liechtenstein for more fun and forward-looking purpose. While this country is as big as Azuki Island with population of only about 30,000, it is an independent country and a member of the United Nations. I am scheduled to meet the price of the country, but for what purpose? Please look forward to reading my diary around March 24th to find out.
Well, see you soon in two weeks!

A small seminar was held at Ikebukuro Junku-do Bookstore yesterday evening. A group of thirty participants gathered and listened to my lecture. I was very worn-out, for I had attended several meetings since this early morning. I was not sure if I was up to the task. However, once I began to speak, I felt energy coming in to me from the audience and spoke the whole time while standing. As always, speaking before an audience is energizing to me.
I wrapped up my speech a few minutes earlier to give time for the Q&A session, when I would take questions from the audience. The questions from the audience were very insightful and are an education for me as well. Seminars held abroad almost always include this Q&A sessions; however, seminars in Japan normally omit them.

(It seems to me that I was a little tired this time)

It may be because of the differences in nationality as well. I have noticed that in seminars held overseas, my audience is accustomed to asking questions during the seminar if there is something they don’t understand. I presume the organizers receive complaints from the audience if they don't hold this session. Japanese are said to be inhibited, however I think this is not a good custom when it comes to attending seminars, meetings, and public hearings. I believe that the asking questions and the sharing of ideas to be essential in the operation of a free society.
For all of my future seminars, it is my wish to include a Q&A session. An entirely Q&A seminar is being planned at the end of May, which is to be held at our conference room. Please come prepared with many good questions. I especially welcome probing questions for my research purposes. I plan on awarding a small prize for the participant with the most interesting and difficult question.

Yesterday evening, there was a seminar at Hotel Nikko Fukuoka hosted by Fukuoka Prefecture Small and Medium Sized Company Management Association. Over 150 people came for the seminar at a nice venue. The gathering is in principle for the management of small and medium sized companies and usually attend around 90 people. It gave me therefore a great pleasure to think that the story of my crystals has been spreading as acknowledging myself to be a missionary of water and HADO.

In the following morning, I was next invited to the breakfast meeting of Kyushu Economic Forum to give a talk for about an hour. Prominent members were at the meeting from Kyudenko Corporation, Japan Railways Kyushu, Seibu Gas, Fukuoka Bank and local universities. They listened attentively to my talk till the end though it lasted about 10 minutes longer than scheduled. It left me the sense of satisfaction when I finished talking.
What I felt strongly was that the economic leaders in Kyushu were well organized and very eager to learn. The chairman of the Small and Medium Sized Company Management Association is Mr. Akinori Kobayakawaand he is quite a person. He loves Fukuoka very strongly and he plays an important role in the Economic Forum as well. He must be a descendant of the lord in the area. That is why he has such easygoing HADO and things are well organized in harmony around him. I felt that I could count on the great future of Fukuoka

As I wrote in January, Ms. Shizuko Ouwehand came to visit our company today. As you can see she is small, but very energetic. During the seminar she showed us performances, jumping all around the stage, which truly excited the audience. Just as of yesterday, (March 2nd) she turned 66 years old, but she is a very sweet woman who looks so young compared her age.

The book she is holding in the picture is a Dutch book called "I love you Earth". The author is Princess Irene, the sister of the queen of the Netherlands, who devotes her life to environmental issues. As a matter of fact, I happen to be in this book. She chose 10 key persons related to the issues of environment, had interviews with them, and made a book out of it. Our talk took place about one year ago, when I visited the Netherlands. She was a very charming person with a wonderful ‘hado’. As you can see, Mr. Rupert Sheldrake and many other great professors appear in the book, so I feel honored to be included among one of them.

Then in the evening, when I went to our favorite restaurant Yanagibashi near Asakusa station with my wife and Ms. Ouwehand, a very interesting happening took place. Ms. Ouwehand bumped into her friend, the president of EM Network, Mr. Toshio Miyazawa. Mr. Miyazawa has successively spread EM Technology in the industrial field, so Ms Ouwehand had been acquainted with him for some time. But how did we meet Mr. Miyazawa, who is originally from Nagoya, on the Asakusa bridge?
Mr. Miyazawa was with 7, 8 foreign people and other fellows. So it was just a coincidence, but interestingly enough, Ms. Ouwehand said that she always wanted to introduce us to one another. She constantly claims to be the person of "linking tissue," and I saw it happen for real.
This time she bought 22 copies of "Messages from Water Vol. 3," which left her with an empty purse. This has guaranteed the bestseller of this book.

Today, we had the guests from Thailand. I was expecting a Thai couple to show up. However, the husband was a great big fellow (see the picture) from the Netherlands and I had to look up to talk. They've been married for 4 years and are now running a small publisher together. The small publisher with seven staff people has published more than twenty books in four years. Certainly, they have been doing very well.

The purpose of their visit was discussing on the publication of 'The Message from Water' and the plans for my seminars in Thailand. My wife was also at the meeting and asked them, "How did you know about 'The Message from Water'?" He answered, "I used to attend many of the EM meetings. One day, one of EM friends showed me your husband's book and I purchased it. " His answer hit me on and I asked, "Do you know Mrs. Shizuko Ouwehand? She is Japanese." His answer was, "I know her very well."
Mrs. Shizuko Ouwehand has been living in Holland for long time. She introduced Dr. Higa of EM to Europe. When “the Message from Water” was published in June 1999, she was visiting Japan. During her stay in Japan, she learned about the book from Dr. Ozawa of Konan City in Aichi. She was so moved that she came to see me as soon as she read the book. Although she is about 5-year senior to me, she is very active and full of energy. To our happy surprise, when she came to see us for the first time, she bought 77 books, spending all her pocket money she had. She brought back all the books and delivered them to her friends and acquaintances.
It was the beginning of the break of my books in Europe. Consequently, I started to have seminars at every corner in Europe with her assistance in interpretation. I sort of owe her my books’ success in Europe. What a coincidence that the seed she cultivated sometime ago is now blooming in Thailand. It seems that the seeds of goodwill are to be carried to all over the places in the world by the hands of thoughtful people.
Naturally, any good deed will be spread, take root, and grow to bloom, as if dandelion fluff does, although nobody is watching over.
I will be sitting down at the table with Mrs. Ouwehand tomorrow when she will be arriving to Japan. You may call it synchronicity. I will be telling her our plan to publish “The Message from Water” in Thailand. It will be an icing on the cake at the table.