I’m so happy that everybody enjoyed the festival. I truly believe that all the 3500 people in the audience, as well as all the guests from within Japan and outside, and all the staff that made this possible were happy with the event. When I think about it, I have always wanted to make people happy. However, not all my efforts had brought desirable results.

And today, I had a telephone call at my hotel room at 8:30 in the morning for a scheduled telephone interview with a radio station in Seattle, USA. I decided to let William join the interview since he is a well known person in his home town of Seattle. However, the MC on the other side was surprised to hear from him that I just made things all confusing for everyone. The interview was all on live so they didn’t understand my English. That was just another example of an unsuccessful try at trying to make people happy.

The interview continued for about an hour in a pretty serious mood. Of course there was an interpreter on the other side of the line so things went okay but I always wish that I was able to speak English better. Hope all of you will learn the importance of English earlier than I have.

From five in the evening, we hosted a seminar by Jakab from Hungary. We didn’t have the chance to hear him talk beforehand so we planned his seminar as part of the final closing event. His theory gives some scientific backing to the phenomenon of my water crystals which is published in his book in Hungarian. There were some talks among the participants of the seminar to publish a Japanese version of his book. So, all in all, I think I was able to bring some good progress to him.

Jakab’s book

After the lecture, the IHM staff, the festival committee, and some guests all got together for the real final party to close the event. Thank you everyone for making this work.

Hello again, this is Ayano. Since I reported on the first day of the festival, I couldn’t resist but to report on the second and the final day as well.

Since today was the second day, I felt more relaxed and actually enjoyed setting up for the big day. I felt confident that the success of the day before will follow today as well. And of course, I was right. I tried to sneak in to the main hall while that day’s movie, Gaia Symphony No. 5, was playing but it was impossible since I was not able to find any empty seats in the dimly lit hall. My mother was actually there as one of the audience and had so much great things to say about the movie that that made me regret not watching it even more.

The main guest of the day was Dr. Ervin Laszlo, a man that was featured in the film. After Dr. Laszlo’s lecture, there was an introduction to the Club of Budapest by its Japan’s coordinator, Shigeyuki Itoh, its honorary member and conductor, Kenichirou Kobayashi, and the club’s Japanese ambassador, Mistuhiro Shibata.

Dr. Ervin Laszlo’s lecture
“You Can Change the World”

Then there was a panel discussion with Dr. Laszlo, Masaru Emoto, Director Tatsumura, and Dr. Haruo Saji. My personal highlight of the day’s event was Dr. Laszlo’s piano performance. On top of being a prominent scientist, Dr. Laszlo had also been known as a piano prodigy.

From the left, Director Tatsumura, Dr. Ervin Laszlo,
Dr. Haruo Saji, and Masaru Emoto

At the end of the panel discussion, the director mentioned about the special piano performance. As Dr. Laszlo walked towards the grand piano set up on the stage, the audience gave a big applause. I am not very familiar with much music so I didn’t know how to evaluate his music but I knew I felt this deep urge to hear more of his music even after he was finished. I felt that the music had the special ability to pull me in to his world. By the way, it is a rare occasion that Dr. Laszlo will agree to play piano for anyone. Could it be that this is because of Masaru’s invisible power too?

Piano performance by Dr. Laszlo

Dr. Laszlo’s performance was followed by Dr. Haruo Saji’s performance. They were so very different in style that they complimented each other well. Dr. Laszlo played with strong, forceful power whereas Dr. Saji played with soft and flowing energy.

Then Kizu from IHM laboratory presented the water crystal photograph of the water that we prayed for the day before. The original water was tap water from the venue, water that is usually not fit to produce any crystals. However, a clear hexagonal crystal appeared this time with our power.

Kizu reporting on the crystal picture with Masaru Emoto

Crystal picture of tap water that received
prayers on the first day of the festival.

The festival ended smoothly with the closing song by Harumi Takahashi, Mari Meguro, and a choir of 60 members. I wanted to sit there and let all the emotion sink in but I’m still a staff, I had to run to clean things up right after the ending. By the time I got to the after party, most people had their drinks and were all in a festive mood.

Performance of “Today-the Day I Cross the Rainbow”
by Harumi Takahashi and Mari Meguro

Performance of “One” by Harumion Choir

There was a speech by the head of the executive committee of this project, Hazaka, followed by speeches from different guests. I was pretty much in a party mood even though I was supposed to be attending for the foreign guests. As I sang, ate, drank and shared the time together with everyone there, I suddenly felt a little sadness for the fact that it is almost all ending. But in the end, the last two days had been a lot of fun and I am dreaming for the possibility of helping out at the second “Water for Life Festival”.

Director Arntz giving a speech at the after party

This again is Ayano Furuya, one of the secretaries to Masaru Emoto. Since I had fun reporting on the event of 22nd, I now have the honor to report on the actual festival itself.

So finally the day that all of us had been waiting for, the first day of the Water for Life Festival in Nihon Seinen-kan. We have all worked hard for this very day but nobody can predict what would really happen in advance.

My personal responsibility was to attend to the many guests from outside Japan. I was able to meet so many interesting, great people. There were so many wonderful guests both from in and outside Japan that I learned countless things within these two days.

There were three different venues during the first day of the festival. We used the Main Hall which had the capacity for 1300 people for the featured events. Besides that, there was a subhall that showed the movie, Indigo and What the Bleep Do We Know!? throughout the day. The third hall was set up for seminars of different people at different times. So there were many different attractions.

The main hall’s event started at one O’clock but the other halls opened from the morning and people were already piling in. For example, the first screening of What the Bleep Do We Know!? started at 10:30 and was already packed, with people even standing at the back. But actually, I couldn’t be completely happy with the crowd of people that congregated to watch this movie because the director suddenly wanted to take me up the stage with him as a translator to share some words. I was so nervous standing in front of the three hundred people there; I can only imagine how nerve wrecking it is to be up on the stage in the Main Hall.

Packed hall for the screening of What the Bleep Do We Know!?

I was in the staff room with Masaru and that day’s main guest, William Arntz before the start of the Main Hall event. But we were all so wrestles and curious about the audience that we couldn’t sit still. Finally, Masaru couldn’t wait any longer and went to peak up on the stage. Of course, William and I followed. I don’t have any reason to be on the stage but I found myself feeling a little like one of the guests as I peaked through the black heavy curtains on the stage. The hall was actually almost packed, which made me feel relieved but also made me nervous.

William and I

And finally, the festival started some mesmerising images by Craig Peyton and a beautiful song by Mayana who came all the way from Holland. The whole venue seemed to be wrapped in air of sacredness and expectation for something amazing to happen.

"Like Water" by Mayana

Then there was an introduction to the movie by William, the actually screening, a presentation by Masaru, a panel discussion with William, Masaru, and Teruo Matsuda, short presentations by different guests, and a flag ceremony. Everything seemed to have been carried out very smoothly and as things moved on, it seemed that the atmosphere became less anxious and more at home. I myself gradually felt relaxed and was able to enjoy that day’s event as if part of the audience.

Introduction to the movie by director Arntz

Lecture by Masaru Emoto

Panel discussion

Panel discussion

Flag ceremony to pray for world peace

In the end, we all held our hands together in a big circle as we prayed for peace in the world and gave thanks to the fact that we can share this common experience together. I was starting to feel some tears in my eyes at this moment and during Seto family’s Water Song at the very end. I felt proud to be part of a team that had made such a big event happen.

We all prayed for water on stage

"Water Song" by Ryusuke and Hanayo Seto

The water that witnessed all that happened that day and received special prayers from us was taken back to our lab right away to be crystallized and photographed. The result was another thing that we looked forward to for the second day of the festival.

Quantam physicist, Dr. Kazuo Murakami known for "something great".
"Someone I would want in my next movie," says William.

William Arntz came back from his four days trip to Nagano’s Shinano town today. I was all ready to hear his stories as I went over to his hotel with the maganzine, Hado’s chief editor, Tsuneko Narukage. I have set up his trip and was curious to know how that all went.

When I invited him to this festival, I was surprised to have him easily accept my invitation. And he added with some reserve that he wanted to go visit a rural part of Japan as well.

I was planned to be in Yamagata around that time so I was thinking about taking him to a hot spring somewhere in that area. However, he later suggested that he wanted to go to a place called NAGANOPREFECTURE’s KASIWABARA. Apparently, his teacher mentioned this area and told him that it has a deep connection with him previous life.

I went straight on to the internet to look up some information about this area. I found out that this was the birth place of the famous Haiku writer, Issa Kobayashi. I wrote to William and asked, “did your teacher say that your previous life was Issa Kobayashi?” I received a reply right away saying “yes”.

I understood the situation and asked my secretary, Ichise, to plan his trip to seek his previous life. I asked her to find a place with English speakers, Western style lodging, and close to Issa’s museum. She found a perfect place right away and made all the necessary arrangements.

I heard news that William was enjoying himself during the trip so I was not too worried but I was very curious about how the whole trip influenced him. I asked him about that right as I saw him. The answer surprisingly came as an English Haiku:

Return to Home village
Everything very much changed
In the end, me too

He probably went with an expectation of remembering something from his previous life if he went to visit his old home town. But in reality, everything had changed so much and was not able to remember anything. And that change included himself as well.

But even with that, he admitted that he was able to write Haikus easily there. I am hoping I can share some of his Haikus in the January edition of the magazine, Hado as well as share my personal theory on previous lives.

By the way, William became friends with CW Nicole while staying in Kashiwabara. He would come by to his lodge and have dinner together.

Now that the press conference on the 22nd ended up very successfully, my wife and I were off to Sapporo for another BE-ONE seminar the next day. There were about 400 people at the seminar. BE-ONE group is looking like they are doing well. After the seminar, my wife and I left for the Susukino town for my favorite food, crab. It was so delicious. Crab is the best food, not only for its taste but because I don’t have to worry about the calories or its sugar level.

So I arrived back in Tokyo around two in the afternoon today. I went straight to Hotel New Okura from there to meet Dr. Laszlo at three. I wanted to meet him as an organizer of the festival. There also was Jin Tatsumura director, who had introduced me to him, as well as the Japanese ambassador of the Club of Budapest, Mitsuhiro Shibata.

From the right, Tatsumura director, Dr. Ervin Laszlo, Masaru Emoto
The back row, from the right, Mrs. Tatsumura, Mitsuhiro Shibata

I’d like to introduce Dr. Laszlo a little here.

He was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1932. He has always been familiar with piano and was admitted to Franz Liszt Academy of Music at seven. At nine, he marked his piano debut with the Budapest Philharmonic. In 1947 he received a Grand Prize from the International Music Competition of Geneva and marked a New York recital debut a few months later

Later, he studied physics and philosophy at Colombia and Yale and developed the concept of systems philosophy. He was called over to the Club of Rome by its founder, Aurelio Peccei, to help create a world famous report on the limit of growth. He later became the program director of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and worked in New York’s United Nation’s head quarter for seven years.

In 1993, He founded the Club of Budapest with the help of Hungarian government. This group aims at raising the level of consciousness of people in the areas of science, art, and culture. There are many famous people of the world as part of its honorary members.

He has also written some books on fundamental science and has suggested the theory of Akashic Field.

As I shook hands with Dr. Laszlo, I asked timidly, “did you know of me?” He answered as follows:

“There recently were three events concerning you. First, the last three seminars that I have been invited to were all about water. Second, when I met with Dr. Rupert Sheldrake the other day, all we were talking about was your crystals. And third, on my birthday on June 12th, I received your book as a present from my son in the States.”

Wow, I was overjoyed!! The day I mentioned inviting Dr. Laszlo to this festival to Tasumura director was on July 10th, at a dinner in Jinnguu. So he had actually had my book a month before that. Now I understand why he was so easily persuaded to be part of the festival.

This gives me a definite confidence in the success of the upcoming festival.

My name is Ayano Furuya, one of the secretaries to Masaru Emoto. We have a lot to report on but since Masaru is a little too busy, I will be giving some report on a recent event instead.

The 22nd was the press conference and the special movie screening of “What the Bleep Do We Know!?” held at the HouOu Hall in Hotel New Otani. This was held as the pre-event for the Water for Life Festival planned on the 27th and 28th. The press conference was scheduled to start at 3 O’clock but Masaru slid in to the hall just a half an hour before that scheduled time. He came directly from Sendai, where his last seminar was held. It just seems like he is always caught up in a very tight schedule, but at the same time, I am amazed to see him so energetic and ready to do more all the time.

The hall was filled with large round tables with pure white table cloths with beautiful chandeliers hanging from the ceiling. There also was a stage and a large screen in front of the room. It looked like there will be a large wedding about to be held. (In fact, the hall was actually used for the wedding party for a famous sumo wrestler just the other day). And above the stage was a large sign that read “Press Conference for “Water for Life Foundation” Establishment Festival & Special Screening of “What the Bleep Do We Know!?””

I couldn’t imagine how the actual festival will be if the press conference is held in such an established venue. I found myself feeling excited and yet nervous at what is about to take place.

At three O’clock, a famous TV hostess, Setsuko Kobayashi, announced the start of the show. Masaru and the movie What the Bleep Do We Know!?’s director, William Arntz got up on the stage. William came all the way from the USA just for this festival.

The press conference was mainly about the upcoming establishment of the NPO, Water for Life Foundation, which was explained by Masaru through his Power Point presentation. I myself learnt the preciousness and sacredness of water to all living things and felt a great pride in being able to take part in such an important cause.

On top of that, there currently is a plan for another movie, a Japanese one this time, which will be taking up Masaru and his crystal pictures as part of the main theme. The producer and the main actor of that movie, “Stone Age”, were able to come to the venue and Masaru was able to introduce them and that movie as well.

Then we moved on to the very first showing in Japan of What the Bleep Do We Know!? with Japanese subtitle. This was the very first time any of us, including Masaru, has ever seen the Japanese subtitled version of this movie. The audience all looked solemn with concentration as they tried to take in all the difficult but interesting concepts presented in the movie while watching. I have to say that the director’s purpose of the movie, to making people think, has definitely worked with this crowd.

By the way, it was the very first time to show the movie in a foreign country for the director as well. He was nervous about how the Japanese audience will react to the movie that he was sitting outside the hall for the whole time the movie was playing.

The first step in to the success of the upcoming festival did end up very well overall. I have no doubt that this success will carry over all the way to the actual days of the festival.

Yesterday, the director of the movie What the Bleep Do We Know!? William Arntz arrived in Japan so I had a welcome dinner with him and some of my employees. Even after the long flight, he seemed very upbeat and was enjoying sushi. He even was enjoying a glass of shochu with sour plum, a distinctively Japanese drink. He said this was his second time in Japan but he must have had some previous lives as Japanese since I did not feel any awkwardness towards him. He admitted that he felt very much at home in Japan as well.

So today, I had a seminar at a town called Mikawamachi in Yamagata. I took the Yamagata Shinkansen around seven in the morning and got off at Yamagata Shinjyou after two and a half hours. It used to take a whole night on a train to travel the same distance but the invention of a Shinkansen had made traveling so much more convenient. At the station, Hazaka general manager was waiting for me with his car to take me to the seminar hall, about an hour and a half away. His home town is Sendai so it was not too far for him to drive.

Yamagata is known as the Tibet of Japan because of its under populated area. But even within that area, Mikawamachi is the tenth smallest community with the total of 800 people. A man that planned a two days event for the higher conciousness of the community is Taiki Uchiyama. He received a god’s calling seven years ago to move from Kanagawa to this area and start organic farming with his wife and his daughter.

This event was in commemoration of the establishment of a NPO, Minna Arigatou (Thank you Everyone). There also was a musical recital by my personal friend, Minehaha. However, the amount of audience that came both for that recital and my lecture was not as much as we hoped for. Even then, Minehaha sang a beautiful tune that must have spread its powerful vibration not only within that town but all the way to Dewasan Mountain.

The next morning, we got up early to visit one of the DewasanMountains. I went with Hazaka, Uchiyama, and my friends for ten years, Akira Yoneda and Takeo Kawachida from Human Awakening network. Both Yoneda and Kawachida were friends of Uchiyama and they all came to support him for this event.

We had a formal appointment for worship and blessing at Dewasan Mountain Shrine with Hisanobu Ogata, the head priest there. At the same time, there was a blessing ceremony for two monks during their extreme ascetic training so I felt more refreshed as I prayed for the success of our festival on the 27th and 28th.

With the head priest of Dewasan Mountain Shrine, Hisanobu Ogata



Formal worship and blessing at HaguroMountain

In the farther end is Takeo Kawachida

Yesterday was actually our 37th Wedding Anniversary. However, my wife went on a three day business/sight seeing tour to Korea with my daughter and could not spend the day together. This is probably the first time in all of 37 years that we are apart on that day. Therefore, I had dinner with some of my employees for the last two days, I just can’t seem to enjoy a meal all alone.

Then, one of my employees suggested, “you should bring a bouquet of flowers at Narita airport tomorrow.” Of course I was thinking about being at the airport to pick my wife up but I did not think about the flowers. “Yes, that is a great idea,” I agreed immediately. That is the part of my personality that I like. So I got to action right away and had my secretary order 37 red roses and brought it with me to Narita airport. I was a little embarrassed but my wife was very happy and moved. My grandson was happy as well.

The featured event for the first day (27th) of the festival is the film, What the Bleep Do We Know!? and about the International Water for Life Foundation, a day surrounding the theme of WATER. On the other hand, the main event of the next day (28th) is the screening of Gaia Symphony No. 5 with special appearances by Dr. Ervin Laszlo and Dr. Haruo Saji, surrounding the theme of MUSIC. On top of that, Dr. Ryou, also known as a famous musician, is going to be playing a piece on piano at the festival. That would be a perfect addition to the day dedicated to music.

And yes, water has the ability to spread the energy as vibration (sound) throughout the body, throughout the earth, and even throughout the universe, all creating small, medium, and large mandalas and creating every phenomenon.

One of the most interesting parts of the day will be the panel discussion that I myself will be taking part of. Besides myself, there will be Dr. Laszlo, Dr. Saji, the physicist that understands the universe through sound, and the movie director, Jin Tatsumura who expressed the theory of Gaia through images by naming them symphony in his movie.

Dr. Irvin Laszlo From Gaia Symphony No. 5 (c) Jin Tatsumura Office	Dr. Haruo Saji	Director Jin Tatsumura

By the way the organizer is I, Emoto. I have recently learnt my name’s original meaning in Sanskrit. Emoto can be translated at Nada-Brahman, meaning sound. Nada actually means a wide river, and Brahman means the source, so the origin of sound is from the trickling sound of water at the source that is about to form a wide river. I have indeed come to existence in this earth with a very significant name.

I am hosting a festival in commemoration of the establishment of a NPO, International Water for Life Foundation (IWLF) on November 27th (Sat.) and 28th (Sun.) at Nihon Seinen Kan.

You can find more details of the upcoming festival from the homepage of Water for Life Festival (in Japanese) but I would like to explain the purpose and the meaning of this festival to all so that as many people as possible will be able to experience this special event with me.

The first purpose --- Screening of the movie, What the Bleep Do We Know!?

This movie was filmed by a small film production company in WashingtonState in the USA this March. My crystal pictures have a significant role within the theme of the movie.

The start of it all was the following e-mail message that I received about three years ago:

"We are an independent film production team based in Washington. We have been hoping to create a film about the fundamental particles of the universe but were not able to find the right medium to build up on until we came across you book, Message from Water. We all agreed that your crystal photographs will work very well with our planned film. Thus, we are writing to you to ask your permission for the usage of the pictures on xx page, the total of about ten images. Is it a possibility?"

Of course, I agreed with this and signed the contract without any hesitation. I recalled the proposed title of that movie to be something along the line of "What if we were all the Fundamental Particles?" However, I forgot all about that movie soon afterwards. Then I received news this April, right before my USA seminar tour, that the movie was finished. You can find more in detail about that time in my April 5th (in English) entry. There also is an update on what happened afterwards in August 20th (in English) entry.

It's been two and a half months since then and the movie has attracted attention all throughout the USA. An independent film that started from a single theater is now shown at over 150 theaters throughout the country and has been at the top thirty to twenty movie in the nationwide ranking for the last five months.

Many different mass media, including the Wall Street Journal, has taken up the news of its success in the mean time. The CNN has actually taken up the story of the movie twice! You can find the different media updates on the movie through its official site.

And this has caused a similar phenomenon as my Message from Water in which the power of grassroots network proved very successful.

And finally this widely talked about movie is being screened outside the theaters in the USA and Canada. The very first one will be here in Japan, at my festival. I only have that one single day to share the movie but Mr. William Arntz the main producer of the movie will be there to give a talk as well.

I believe that this movie, with its deep meanings, could be a great educational tool in the advancement into the next dimension of our humanity. I sincerely hope that as many people as possible can experience this movie and encounter new ways of thinking.

November 16th is our 37th wedding anniversary. My daughter invited us to a three days hot spring getaway to Kaminoyama in Yamagata-ken for its celebration. She said she found the place online while she was still in Holland.

"You two will love the place!" she guaranteed. We stayed at a Japanese style hotel called Meigetsu-sou. If we take the Yamagata shinkansen, "Tsubasa", it only takes 2 hours and 40 minutes from Tokyo station. It was a very conveniently located hotel. Shinkansen is a great invention as well, it used to take half a day to travel the same distance on a night train.

The hotel was one of the best places that I have ever stayed at. As many of you know, I spend about half the year on the road so I stay at many different hotels. I probably have stayed at somewhere between 700 to 800 hotels in total. And when I say this is one of the best, you can be sure that that means high quality.

If you ask me what is so great about that place, I would just have to say everything. However, there are few things that stood out. One was the hot spring. The water was plenty and the temperature was perfect. We had our own private hot spring bath in our room so I can sit in the tub anytime. I was only able to stay for a night but within that amount of time, I enjoyed the hot spring eight times! Of course, there was a large common bath and an open air bath as well.

Kaminoyama Hot Spring

Kaminoyama Hot Spring

Also, the way the room was set up was impressive. A Japanese style hotel usually has Japanese tatami mats where we eat and sleep on in the room. However, this hotel also had an adjacent room with western style table so that we can have meals either on the mat or seated in a chair. It is very helpful for elder people with bad legs or visitors from a foreign country (there actually were number of foreigners there). On top of that, the food was prepared after each of our preference is asked so the food is served one dish at a time, unlike a normal hotel of this type where all the food is prepared and set all at once.

We took both breakfast and dinner in the room so that must take up a lot of time and manpower for the hotel employee. The hotel must have prepared a well equipped dormitory for those workers as well. And these workers were all very well trained and hospitable. I felt like they felt the sole purpose of their existence is to welcome the guests and make them feel as comfortable as possible.

It seemed like all the people that thought that serving others is their mission got together and started that hotel. Our housemaid, Ai Yamaguchi was one of those people and I felt very much at peace and comfortable because of her.

There also was a reflexology massage facility in the hotel. The massage was superb, I felt healed from the bottom of my soul. There were other extra attractions in the hotel so I recommend that you browse through their homepage. It is an established hotel so it is a little pricey but it's not too different from some European five start hotels.

Kaminoyama Hot Spring Meigetsu-sou Homepage (in Japanese)--- http://www.meigetsuso.co.jp/

It could be that because this was the very first vacation given by my daughter as a present, and because my adorable grandson was with us too that I especially had a great impression of this hotel. But I am hoping I can come back again when I need some time for writing up manuscripts.

Akahige Jyuku is a nationwide organization founded by Dr. Koushirou Kenmochi who is responsible for the development of a new medical treatment of "active balance therapy". The organization hosts a training/lecture sessions about twice a year. This time, it was hosted in Tochigi-ken's Nasu plateau. Since I support alternative medicine, I try to attend similar seminars as much as possible.

With the founder and the director of Akahige Jyuku

The organization's name, Akahige, is taken by the famous movie, Akahige, directed by the director, Akira Kurosawa. I have actually visited the world famous director's house for a Hado therapy while he was still alive. That was about 15 years ago. Of course, I'm a great fan of his work. I have to admit that my favorite is The Seven Samurais although Akahige is up on my list as well.

There is a part in that movie where Dr. Akahige says, "the origin of every illness is poverty and ignorance." I absolutely agree with this idea and since I started thinking that way, I gave up on the alternative healing activities and focused more on the education to open minds. I have been traveling down that route ever since then.

However, the system of soul healing is an important one. I am looking forward to seeing many Dr. Akahiges spread their teachings all over the nation.

I had another seminar at Kyoto today. It was organized by an association of Kyoto's Construction businesses of which Noguchi Construction Company was one of the main participants. I have known Mr. Noguchi from when he was a child because his father and I had Sadako Ogiwara as a mutual friend. I was invited to talk at this human rights event through that connection.

Sadako Ogiwara on left and President Noguchi on right

I have known Ms. Ogiwara for over ten years now. She is like my older sister in Kyoto. She is an instructor of Japanese flower arrangement and has been supporting me from when I had just started on my research. She came to all my major events, be it in Tokyo, Kansai, or Fukuoka. We are like buddies so I can joke and relax around her. She also is like a barometer that displays if I am moving in the right direction.

This seminar for the human rights has been going on for over ten years. Their work follows the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that was issued by the UN 50 years ago. I realized that there were many groups dealing with human rights in the rural areas of Japan as I traveled around. I wonder if there are still prominent problems with the prejudice again the Buraku people in those areas.

It's true that there are increasing numbers of worldwide problems and violence stemming out of human rights issues or ethnic, religious differences. I believe that a message like the one expressed in my "Message from Water" book is a great tool in relieving that tension. I hope that this book will reach the world's schools as an educational material.

After the seminar, Mr. Noguchi Jr. took us to a Japanese cafe by TakaseRiver. This cafe was made famous by a novel written by Ougai Mori. Many Japanese people love Kyoto cuisine, and I am definitely one of them. The food is light in taste but very elegant, I have grown to appreciate it as I age older. I always feel that the food in Kyoto is the origin of all current Japanese food. The cafe served some inexpensive delicious food. I would recommend that place to anybody visiting the old city of Kyoto.

An Example of Kyoto Cuisine

I went to a seminar for Tendaishu Sakamoto Educational office today. They are known in Japan as one of the pioneers of the country's Buddhism. My friend of thirty years, Soutetsu Matsumura of Nagoya Shoutoku temple (picture below) gave me a chance to talk at a very prestigious and honorable event.

I had already been invited to another Tendaishu seminar in Okayama about two months prior. I spoke in front of about 1000 people then, but they were mostly parishioners so I was not very nervous. However, this time, it was only in front of about 70 people but they were all people of higher standings within the organization. I was pretty nervous then.

But overall, my theme of the talk, "To Love Oneself" was received very well and went along perfectly with Tendaishu's own theme of the year. Their theme was: "Meet the Buddha in Oneself", similar idea that I have been talking about in my "Messages from Water Vol. 3".

What I did in that book was to show the water the names of the five big religions of the world individually. (Pictures 1~5) These all showed beautiful crystals but I wondered why there are problems for these religious groups to get along with each other in the world. I decided to show all the names of the religions at once to the water just like the Picture 6. The result is the crystal picture of Picture 7.

Picture 1. crystal of water that was shown "Christianity"

Picture 2. crystal of water that was shown "Buddhism"

Picture 3. crystal of water that was shown "Judaism"

Picture 4. crystal of water that was shown "Hinduism"

Picture 5. crystal of water that was shown "Islam"

Picture 6. showing all five religions' names to water

Picture 7. crystal of water that was shown five religions' names

Can you see an image of a face at the end of a point on the top of the last crystal? I interpreted it as "god exists within you (and I)".

What do you all think?

All the friends in the world, Konnichiwa. I am Masaru Emoto, the writer of "Message from Water" series. My homepage will transform itself into multilingual sites featuring 9 different languages starting today. It will be in Japanese, English, Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Hungarian, and Romanian. This became possible through the Yoga group, MISA, whom I made a strong bond with when I visited Romania in the middle of October. When I found out that there were members of that group that spoke and understood different languages, I decided to share my long time wish of making my homepage accessible in different languages. As a result, they volunteered to help without any hesitation. So today is the very first of the entry that will be translated into so many different languages.

The process will start from Japan and be sent to Romania to be translated, and then back to Japan to be put up on the web so the entry might take two to three days to update. But I am hoping that I can send news and stories that will entertain everybody so hopefully different types of people can stop by to enjoy them.

The main purpose of this homepage is to spread the words of global peace through each individual citizens of the world. So if there are any individuals' or organization's homepage that have similar purposes, I would love to have that link set up on my site. In the near future, I am hoping to build this website into a multi-functioning site. However, for the time being, the site will start with my diary entries only and will start expanding from there.

Today's message

3 Photographs "I pray for the peace in the world!"

I arrived back in Japan today from my USA/Europe seminar tour. My daughter's family was back from Holland for a while so I got to see my grandson for the first time in three months. I taught him the prayer of world peace. He only had to be taught once and was repeating it perfectly, and with lots of emotion and heart. He may have some special talent!?