Ms Kaneko organized today's seminar. We also had a seminar here two years ago in a hotel named Hakutyou-kan in Tokura-onsen. The hotel has a long and distinguished history and Emperor Hirohito once lodged there. But this time, we had the seminar in 'Shiga-highland hotel' in Shiga highland. The hotel has hot spring, and I was looking forward to enjoying it. The owner of this hotel is a member of Ms Kaneko's HCC, so he offered the place for our seminar at very low price.

With Ms. Eiko Shiga at Nagano HCC

I planned to stay the night at Shiga highland, but I got have to change my schedule. I had a hado-juku seminar yesterday, and I must fly to Lichtenstein tomorrow. (At first, the trip to Lichtenstein was scheduled in 14, but this schedule didn't suit with the schedule of the organizers there, so it was changed to 28.) Then, though I was looking forward to the hot spring there, I made the trip to Shiga highland one day round.

It turned out to be a plan of Nature. About 10 days ago, my wife Kazuko got a stitch and inflammation in her side, then, she went to hospital and immediately was admitted in. My family members were so worried about her. I was full of imagination, so I imagined the worst case such as cancer. Even if I have stayed the night in Shiga highland, I would not be able to enjoy the hot spring there.

I planned to come here with my wife, because my wife likes hot spring, and she likes Ms Kaneko more than that. (My wife never comes with me for the seminars in Osaka or Nagoya, because there is no hot spring.) But this plan was cancelled by my wife's sickness. Since I have changed original plan, which my wife were looking forward to, the God seems to send my wife to hospital as a punishment for me. I reflected on that I shouldn't spare much time only to my business.

Ms Kaneko is originally an ordinary housewife, who became very successful as a HCC owner. Once she had a partnership with a famous business person in Nagano. She was working as an operator with him. At one point, however, he withdrew from HCC. Maybe he thought that HCC didn't pay. If Ms Kaneko is really an ordinary person, then that HCC might be ended, but she was different. She took over that HCC without hesitation.

Maybe about two years of hado-consulting might give her confidence and satisfaction. She is now not a part time operator, but a professional operator who is respected by people in Nagano, and who I can recommend for everyone. She is of my ideal. She is a real community-based HCC owner. This time, I also heard very impressive episodes from her HCC members.

I heard one episode from Mr and Ms Nakayama, who got me to and from as 4 years ago, when I had a seminar in Togo-cho as Ms Kaneko asked me. "We got a big problem then. My daughter suffered from leukemia. But Ms Kaneko made hado water for my daughter, then she was cured within a month. Now her leukocyte count is normal, and she is fine."

After the seminar was finished, three persons gave me bunches of flowers. One of them was a hale old lady, who I also met in the last seminar there. Now she has moved to Yokohama, where her daughter lives. In front of everyone in the seminar place, she said to me handing the flowers to me, "I'm now 84 years old. My husband died in a war 60 years ago, and I have been bracing myself alone until now, managing my nursery school. These days, I got forgetful with age, and I was losing purpose in life. But your seminar made me fine. I feel new vibration in my body. Thank you very much." I'm so impressed that I needed much effort to hide my emotion.

I got a bouquet from a participant.

Though it was a little heavy, I brought the flowers to my home. Ms Kaneko, thank you for your good job.

On June 21st, there was an event called "Day for World Peace and Prayer" on Asagiri Heights by Mt. Fuji. A peace activist in America, Ms. Barbara Wolf, whom I know for some time, her friend Margaret Fikioris, a Cherokee shaman Ms. Silverstar, and the professor of German studies in Tokyo University, Mr. Hideo Nakazawa participated in the event. After that was over, Mr. Nakazawa brought the three guests from America over to IHM in the morning, before they were about to leave Japan on 23rd.

From the left, Mr. Hideo Nakazawa, Ms. Barbara Wolf,
Ms. Silverstar, Ms. Margaret Fikioris, and I

Having been introduced by Mr. Nakazawa, I have met Barbara in Amsterdam, Holland three years ago. In many years, she has continued to purify water worldwide through prayers. She is running a homepage called Global Meditation Network and sends emails on a regular basis to inform thousands of people around the globe about peace activities that are happening worldwide.

I gave reports on the recent U.S. seminar whereby we visited 13 cities, current topics of the crystal pictures, and introduced them of the movie, 'What the Bleep Do We Know!?' with the slides that we produced.

The slide made by Mr. Kizu included an American flag that replaced the five-pointed stars with six-pointed stars, which truly fascinated them. I told them that "When I showed the American flag to the water, it formed a beautiful hexagonal crystal, but it was empty in the center", and Barbara said with a nod, "This is exactly what America is like". Also, Margaret is involved in storing and repairing the American flag made during the establishment of the nation at the Smithsonian Museum of Washington. That was an interesting coincidence.

At last, Silverstar told us about the teaching she is spreading. It is the knowledge of the ancient stars, and surprisingly, the diagram presented a shape of seven six-pointed stars.
There were protectors who guard each of the wisdom and they are divided into six groups. Red Nation is what we know as Native American, Yellow Nation indicates Asian, Hebrew, Egyptian, and Australian indigenous people, Aborigine, are presented as protectors. The sixth protector is called Star Nation, and I found out recently that it points to our brothers in the outer universe who are communicating through the crop cycles.

A diagram that Silverstar drew

Then she said, "Mr. Emoto, you are also a protector of wisdom. You are the wisdom protector of water who belongs to the Yellow Nation. From the old days, Elders with wisdom traveled around the world, passing on the wisdom given by the creator. The purpose is to bring peace on earth. When you were talking about the journey to the thirteen cities in U.S. and the seminars, the god of guardian behind me told me that Mr. Emoto was one of the Elders who taught ancient wisdom to the world. You are now reborn and doing the same thing."

When I heard this, I had goose bumps and Barbara told me "Having goose bumps means that the spirit is agreeing with you."

Silverstar gave me a bandana with various symbols as a gift saying, "It is a gift to the wisdom protector of water."

Silverstar gave me a bandana as a gift

Now that I got this wonderful present tied around my head which refreshes my mind, I felt once again that while I take care of my health, I will tell others worldwide about the wisdom of water and help attain world peace.

I have been really busy lately and haven't had time to write a journal entry every day. I am sorry that I am writing now about last week.

On Saturday, the 19th, I went to Okayama for a seminar. It was organized by Mr.Kimoto, LTC. The hall could hold 150 people and I think about 180 people came. The majority of the audience was women, who created a warm and friendly atmosphere. They gave me rounds of applause when they were moved, which reminded me of the lectures that I gave in the USA. I enjoyed the three hours very much.

On Sunday, the 20th, I went to Nagakute-cho, Aichi prefecture. This is the town known as the old battlefield of Komaki-Nagakute. In this town, Mr. Yogo opened Raiko-sou, a healing institution. It is a wonderful three-story wooden building. I was invited to its opening event to give a lecture five years ago.

Soon after I arrived at the venue, I met Mr. Seikan Kobayashi, whom I have long want to meet.

With Mr. Seikan Kobayashi

Mr. Kobayashi has been touring all over Japan to spread the importance of using the word "Arigato (Thanks)." Since my book, "Messages from Water" came out, he has introduced the book to people and increased the number of readers tremendously. That's why I have long wanted to meet him and say "Arigato."

Contrary to what I have imagined, he is a slim and tall gentleman, as the picture shows. He gives 330 lectures per year! It is incredible.

Please read my journal on February 24th before you read further. Masatsugu came for an "interview (?)," as promised. His parents came with him, too. Of course he passed! During my lecture, I read from another letter he sent me in reply. The audience was very impressed and gave him a big round of applause naturally. I will quote the letter below. I am shocked! He is truly amazing.

A letter from Masatsugu Kawashima (5th grade)

Hello, Dr. Emoto. Thank you for your letter the other day. I saw the video version of "Messages from Water." I like playing the piano very much. I always listen to CDs, like Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 and "Eine kleine Nachtmusik." So I first tried playing the music to the water before giving it to the plant. The plant was about to dry out, but it became more and more vivid. I have played many different kinds of music and discovered some things:

1) When I play music to water, water vibrates every time.
2) The bigger the volume is the more the water vibrates.
3) Sometimes, the water vibrates and starts turning. (I soon noticed this fact because I saw little bubbles turning inside the water.)
4) The water may turn clockwise or counter-clockwise.
5) The water may turn slowly or quickly.
6) When the music is played, many little bubbles appear in the water.

1) and 2) show that the frequency of the sound, and 3) probably shows that the circulation, cause beautiful crystals to be formed. 4) Clockwise: Mozart "Eine kleine Nachtmusik," Beethoven Symphony No. 5, Schubert "Trout." Counter-clockwise: Chopin "Revolutionary (Etude op.10-12)" and "Farewell Song (Etude op.10-3)." I think that clockwise music was created when the composer was in a good mood and counter-clockwise music was created when the composer was sad. 5) Faster tempo music produced a faster spin. 6) I think it is because the water clusters became smaller. By the way, which has smaller clusters, electric resolve water or the water exposed to good words? When I play the piano, I see the images of when the music was created and how the composer was feeling. Brain and flesh are made of water, so I think they can carry Hado energy. I think Hado changes according to the speed of pi-meson, thrown between protons and neutrons. Below is my hypothesis. First, water receives information such as words and music. Second, due to some actions, the speed of pi-meson varies, slow or fast. Third, this causes the vibration of water molecules. Fourth, alignment of molecules changes according to the type of information received. Fifth, water crystals are formed. What do you think? I read a book on homeopathy and it said, "Like heals like." Is this, in principle, same as vaccines? I am looking forward to June 20.

Yesterday was Father's day. On Saturday, I had a seminar in Okayama city and moved to Nagoya to have another seminar today. So, when I came home, Father's day thing was completely out of my mind. I took a shower to wash away all the exhaustion I've got from the two-day seminar trip and sat at the table for family dinner. Currently, we are five-members in my household. My son and his wife as well as another son are living with my wife and me. However, we don't have much chance to sit together at the dinner table. So, tonight became such a wonderful occasion. As a matter of course, we gave a toast with beer to start.

After I finished my small can of beer, I asked my wife to serve me a glass of syochu (distilled spirit), which is my most recent favorite. Instead, she brought in a big box of a sake bottle. Letters read "sake" on the box was easily recognizable. I have been trying to stay away from Japanese sake these days, because I am afraid that I might drink a bit too much. I asked my wife, "Are you serving me sake tonight?" "No, this is not a sake. This is from Yoko on your Father's day". While explaining, she opened the box and brought out a beautiful bottle of syochu decorated with letters of love and thank you by beautiful needlework.

What a surprise and excitement! Until that time, I did not even remember that yesterday was Father's day. Other children also gave me a tie clip and a T-shirt with shower of greetings words; "Thank you father for always loving us". My older child and only daughter Yoko is now living in Holland. She brought us a loving grandson named Riku a year and 3 months ago (See a cat room). Today, Yoko delivered me such an exquisite gift from Holland probably using the technology of Internet online shopping.

One of my sons commented; "I can't beat my sister. She is a master of gift-giving." Well, I have no objection. Thank you Yoko, and other children. I am such a happy man. Family is a beautiful gift.

The Consciousness and Hado Medical Science is a research organization for medical doctors and medical service workers who engage in the oriental or alternative medicine in the area of Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture. This organization was founded by Mr. Gakei Miyazaki, a friend of mine for ten years, who is a skilled O-Ring Test practitioner and owns a Chinese medicine pharmacy named Jyuji-no-Kanpo.

Mr. Gakei Miyazaki

I closely worked with this organization's 8th open seminar, which was held at a large hall called Nihon-Kyoiku-Kan in Hitotsubashi. This hall holds maximum of 850 people and 80% of the seats were occupied for this occasion, which indicated a very successful seminar.

An actor, Yosuke Kubozuka was scheduled to appear for this seminar, however he was unable to attend due to the well-publicized accident. Originally, Mr. Kubozuka, Mr. Yasunao Nakayama, a hemp researcher and I were going to have the open discussion with the themes of Hemp, Light and Water. Instead, I invited Mr. Nakayama to talk and asked Mr. Kiyota, a famous spoon bender to join, who showed demonstrations of the spoon bending and talked about his current activities.

Mr. Yasunao Nakayama

Mr. Masuaki Kiyota

I met Mr. Kubozuka twice through Mr. Nakayama. Mr. Kubozuka read my book, "Water Knows the Answer," and was very moved by it, which eventually lead him to produce a Fuji Television program called "Chikyu Ishin (Restoration of the Earth)." He came to my research center and conducted a successful experiment to the water, which was aired in the program.

Mr. Kubozuka and I share the same zodiac sign of Sheep and he is thirty-six years younger than me. He is very knowledgeable on many issues and a very intelligent guy. His eyes are very pure. I remember he told me that he felt compelled to do something to the surrounding world since he had his own child. He is not an eccentric guy as some media claims and I expect him to be playing an important role for Japan and the world.

No matter what caused him to this accident this time, I believe that this is the sign that he will be working selflessly for the better cause for the world in the future. I pray for his early recovery and wish him the best.

With Honorary President Yukio Funai

On this day, there was a seminar held in the center of Tokyo. I was invited by the president of an organization, Mr. Ido who just became the president this year. I met Mr. Ido three years ago, and we had a lot in common. I believe he is over seventy years old, but his actions still reflected his youthfulness, and he looked very charming..

As a result, there was a time when two of my staffs took a one week journey to the mountain facing the Kumano Kodo (in Wakayama prefecture) with a guide of Mr. Ido; the mountain was owned by a well-established company called Yamagen where he used to work. They took samples of water from different locations, and took crystal pictures of them. I heard that the Kumano Kodo will soon be designated as the world heritage site, and I wish it will be so.

Mr. Ido - 2nd person from the right

Now, at the seminar with about 70 attendees, there was no great response from the audience, and a person sitting in the first row slept through the seminar from the beginning to the end, so it wasn't a lot of fun for me. People are free to sleep when they want, but the fact that the person was asleep through the entire seminar meant that s/he was pretty tired. In that case, I wish people would sleep in the backseats.

Then, at points where the audience usually laughs or nods with consent, they did not utter a thing. I am often invited as a guest speaker for a seminar at an annual meeting of XXX, and I also experience something similar. I guess people who have no interest in this kind of matters do not find this to be fascinating. I thought that I will try not to attend to these kinds of meeting ever again.

...This was what I thought until yesterday, but today I received a thank you card saying s/he was very touched by the seminar and even her/his vision on life has changed. So I thought "Well, if there is at least one person who thought this way, it's good after all." When I reflect back, there were only two women who attended the seminar and that is probably the reason why there was no visible response from the seminar. Anyhow, I wish Japanese men will express themselves with more honesty.

Having been very encouraged by the Yamagata Takahata seminar, my wife and I headed for Ichinoseki in Iwate Prefecture by way of Fukushima. We were going to attend a seminar and a party that were organized by an old liquor shop called "Sekinoichi-Shuzo"

HP of Sekinoichi-Shuzo: http://www.sekinoichi.co.jp/index.html.

By the way, we stayed yesterday at a hot spring hotel in a town called Nanyo-cho next to Takahata-cho where we had the unexpected; in the morning when we woke up, there was no supply of water from the tap. We wondered why and found a rubric note that said "an emergency: the water has been contaminated with great volume of toxic toluene. Please do not drink nor touch the water." Soon two litters of mineral water were distributed to each room and we were told to use that water for washing the face and mouth.

It finally settled around 11 o'clock when we checked out. It seemed like a water truck came to distribute water to the residents around there to take home. We were back in Tokyo to find this incident had been released on press all over Japan and read in the newspaper on the next day. It was only a day before that I showed a crystal picture (see photograph) of the tap water of Takahata and said "this is an extraordinarily beautiful crystal for tap water. The raw water must be clean, so it does not require much chlorinating. Please be proud of this and take good care of your water." Indeed the toluene scare in the next town was not a joke at all.

Now Sekinoichi-Shuzo of Ichinoseki is a very distinguished sake brewery with a long history that we visited about a year ago for a Tohoku seminar. When I visited, I casually said to the owner and his wife "what do you think about producing HADO beer?" This idea got realized, and for the purpose of introduction of a new product, the memorial lecture and the party today were planned.

Hiroko Sato of Sekinoichi-Shuzo on the right,
Wataru Sato, her son on the left.

The seminar was held in a large chai that I heard was built about 150 years ago with a high ceiling providing enough space for 150 people. I felt it filled with good HADO. The seminar was very enjoyable lasting for about an hour in the good atmosphere with attendance of the city mayor and some influential people.

After the seminar the party was held also at a prestigious beer restaurant where the participants enjoyed the HADO beer which tasted like famous German beer, Weizen Beer. No doubt, my wife and I also enjoyed it in one glass after another. This liquor shop has been designated as a spot to stop in for tourists. Please go by when you can and enjoy the Japan's first HADO beer.

Hado Beer (Sold by Sekinoichi-Shuzo)
Order is accepted at I.H.M. Co., Ltd.
（TEL 0120-461-112, FAX 0120-466-810）

(This HADO beer is manufactured by playing to it in the process a CD that boosts the immune system and labeled with the crystal picture of "Happiness". The concept is, therefore, "let us be happy and healthy by drinking the HADO beer".)

Water crystal photograph of tap water
in Takahata-cho, Yamagata Prefecture

Water crystal photograph of water
that is used to make Hado Beer

The invitation to this seminar came through Ms. Nakano about half a year ago. She and I have been doing more work together recently. I was glad to accept the offer, because, of all prefectures in Japan, Yamagata was one of the last three prefectures I had never been to give a seminar. Now Akita, Yamagata's neighbor, and Wakayama are the last two. I was getting more excited about coming to Yamagata, because I heard from my secretary, Kumiko Ichise, that the air was building up toward the event in Yamagata.

It was a nice surprise. The auditorium with 800 seats was totally full and more people were standing. The attendance was 850, according to the organizers. I have to admit that I had never heard of Takahata town before. It is rather a small town with a population of 27,000. The auditorium had never held up to its full capacity for a lecture since its opening four years ago.

Takahata town is also called as 'the land of MAHOROBA', which means peaceful land among mountains. It is indeed surrounded by mountains and hot springs. There is a beautiful spa within the premises of Takahata station. Water is clean. This town of abundance, however, faces hardship of nature in the winter. It will be covered with one meter of snow for three months. Why did so many people come to my Hado lecture here? (Just a week ago, I did lectures in Tokyo, Osaka and Fukuoka, the three biggest cities in Japan. The total attendance from these major cities counted only 450. I felt encouraged by a big crowd in this town.)

What's behind this success? The answer came right away. I found it through talking with the two organizers during the post-seminar reception and sightseeing next day. It is, to set a big goal, to commit to it with enthusiasm and teamwork. There was nothing more to it.

Mr. Masaaki Ono was the one who came up with the idea of this event. He works for the town hall at the health insurance and care department. A 29-years-old and a marathon runner, wanting to help his father with incurable disease, started researching on his own and came across with Hado. Soon he thought of hosting my lecture and consulted with his friend, Dr. Ajitsu, a 49-year old dentist. The two had worked together a year ago and successfully organized a seminar by Ms. Nakano, who is a good friend of Dr. Ajitsu. The two agreed to work together again for a Hado seminar. Since then, they have put so much effort and have done remarkable job. Together or one by one, they visited schools and community centers throughout the town to hold introductory seminars and promoting activities many times.

Dr. Ajitsu, left and Mr. Ono.
Behind them is the poster
they created and posted all over town.

Gradually, more people started to join the two. The preparatory committee for Masaru Emoto seminar was formed, involving more than 30 members, mostly young people. When I first arrived at the venue, the young committee members lined up to greet me. The first line was all women (many beautiful women in Yamagata prefecture!) and behind them was another line of men. I felt their strong teamwork right from the very beginning. Back stage, they had set up a baby sitting room, so mothers can attend the lecture. Many children were cheerfully playing in the big nursery room with baby sitters probably not yet married themselves.

I was so excited to be able to give a lecture there, and the audience responded wonderfully. Before I started, the mayor of the town made a speech and called on the people to send a positive and merry Hado to all over Japan. I think it will really happen in Takahata.

Thank you so much Mr. Ono and Dr. Ajitsu. I had been pessimistic about Japan's future these days, but now I feel energized and optimistic again. I would like to express my sincere appreciation and respect for your eagerness, effort and commitment to help others and to bring goodness to people.

I visited Dr. Ohshiro of Ohshiro Laser Clinic. His clinic and an adjunct research center were located in the building built over Shinano-machi Station of JR Chuo Line. Impressed with my "Water Knows The Answer", Dr. Ohshiro came to visit me last fall. We promised a lunch and today was the day.

I was moved when I saw the words, "Love and Thanks",
on the wall of Dr Toshio Ohshiro's office.

I have been very much interested in Laser technology for long time. The first aqua researcher I have ever met, Dr. Lorenzen's micro-cluster water was treated with laser. Also, Betty Shine, an advocator of unclouding game, once wrote, "looking at cloud with a laser-beam-like mind" -- the phrase somehow influenced my wave theory.

Dr. Ohshiro showed me around his clinic and alleviated my stiff back and shoulder with his laser equipment. Since, it is laser, I did not feel any pain nor heat. However, within 15 minutes, unrelenting pain in my shoulder disappeared as if it had never existed. I was not surprised because I knew what's was going to happen to me.

His clinic was equipped with various types of laser instruments developed for different therapeutic purpose. He told me that these laser instruments cost about 30 million yen at minimum per unit, and continued that no other clinic in the world had more variety of equipments than his. Unit prices go down when machines are mass-produced. Assuming from the price, laser therapy does not seem to be popular yet and Mr. Ohshiro’s answer to my question confirmed it.

Although laser therapy is getting wider recognition all over the world, the therapy itself has inherent limitations in its way to become a popular alternative to existing medical treatment -- less need for medicine.

Someone who has ever attended my seminar may have remembered that I made similar comments when I explained about vibration medicine in seminars. Laser therapy is also vibration technology. Fighting for same enermies, we made a quick rapport to help out each other for our battles.

If you want to know about laser therapy or don't know much about it, please check out Mr. Ohshiro’s Web page below.
Ohshiro Laser Clinic (http://www.ohshiro.com/)

I am convinced that no therapy is more promising as medical treatment of future than laser therapy.

I am sorry that I haven't updated my diary since I returned from Liechtenstein. My company sponsored three seminars scheduled 22nd in Tokyo, 23rd Osaka and 29th in Fukuoka, and we appreciated having wonderful audience, however the total number of the participants were only 450 attendees. I was rather disappointed since it was a large gap to fill compared to the seminar I conducted in the recent U.S. seminar tour. Sorry, I don't mean to grouch, and I guess I have still much to learn.

It is June 1st today, and this is the five year anniversary of the publication of the book, "Messages from Water." This is the birthday of my father who passed away thirty-eight years ago and also my parents' wedding anniversary date. I wonder how my parents are doing. I hope they are watching over me from heaven. When I was still in my thirties, my company went bankrupt and my mother became very worried. I remembered that my mother's anniversary of death is January 6th. There must be some meaning to it, numerologically.

Since it's my diary, I will share an old, personal story with you.

My father was born June 1, 1908 (Meiji Era 41) originally from Aichi. My mother, a native of Edo (Tokyo), was born in the, January 7, 1909 (Meiji Era 42). They both worked at the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, Department of Savings. My father was a model employee and my mother was what they called 'Taisho-era modern girl' or 'flapper', who used to smoke and drink alcohol (the habits which I took over from her). One day, my father's boss assigned him to train her. They soon fell in love and married against the boss's opposition.

I recall my mother's face with nostalgia when she used to tell me those old stories. My parents had four children and I was the youngest among two brothers and one sister. I was three years apart from my brother and I was never struck by my strict father's fist. I was raised with abundance of love and freedom. I still love to be loved (I'm sure it's same for everyone), and maybe that's why I don't thrive on adversity.

I have many other stories to tell about my parents, but I will share them with you some other time.