Since August 25. 2003


April 2006  < May 2006 > June 2006

May 31th, 2006 Vicenzia seminar
May 29th, 2006 Hannover seminar
May 28th, 2006 Stuttgart seminar
May 25th, 2006 Frankfurt seminar
May 24th, 2006 Munich Haar seminar
May 23th, 2006 Nurnberg seminar: Germany
May 20th, 2006 Graz seminar
May 19th, 2006 Austria, Graz
May 16th, 2006 New Jersey seminar
May 14th, 2006 Virginia Beach: Cayce Center Seminar
May 13th, 2006 Burlington seminar, Vermont
May 11th, 2006 Ottwa, Canada seminar
May 8th,9th 2006 Montreal IIIHS Convention
May 6th, 2006 Las Vegas Hay House Convention
May 4th, 2006 Houston Seminar
May 2nd, 2006 Water ceremony and visiting hurricane affected areas in New Orleans
May 1st, 2006 Baton Rouge Seminar



* May 31th, 2006  Vicenzia seminar

Vicenzia is an old town located about 50 minutes northeast of Venice. There is a water company called Aqua Lissa, a customer of HLE. HLE also has business with St. Leonhart in Southern Germany which sells water that creates beautiful water crystals.

The seminar this time was organized by this Aqua Lissa. The seminar starts from 8:30 in the evening so we went to look at Aqua Lissa’s factory and the source of the water.
There was a poser of Thank you water crystal at the factory’s entrance.

The one on the left is the president, Mateo, who resonates very much with the idea of love and gratitude to water. And the one on the far right is Elena, the one that designed the water bottle.

The water bottle that Elena designed. They show the word love to water.


The water source is said to reach few thousand meters below.


In front of that:
Water we love you
Water we thank you
water we respect you
We all repeated these words after Elena.

There were about 500 people that came to the seminar that night. About 100 of these people were either standing or sitting on the floor. I heard there about 200 more that could not fit in the room.

It may be because it was free admission but there were people that came all the way from Venice or Bologna. The movie is not playing yet in Italy so is it the Message from Water that brought the people together? The person that introduced me was a famous local medical doctor.



* May 29th, 2006  Hannover seminar

Hannover is located in the northern part of Germany. I was here three years ago for a seminar organized by Christine, a owner of a bookstore.

The seminar this year was also organized by her. She did a great job organizing the event and it was easier for me since the venue was the hotel that we were staying in. The venue that holds 500 people was full and about 50 extra chairs had to be brought in.

Yukiko Hirakita, a staff at HLE (Hado Life Europe) lives about an hour and a half drive away from Hannover so she came to assist me today. She is an intelligent lady that has graduated from Tokyo University and is a mother of three children with her German husband. She resonated with my work and is mainly organizing the seminars for me, who cannot speak any German.

For those of you that are interested in organizing a seminar in Europe, please contact her initially. You can contact her either in English or German. (hirakita@hado-life-europe.com)

So today, there was no one taking photographs so I don’t have any to share. So I would like to introduce some of the orbs that appear in my seminar photographs every so often. Maybe since I talk about ghosts and spirits at the seminar, they have shown up to support me. What do you all think? Who’s saying that I should dust the camera lens more often?


At Graz (top left)


Graz (top right)


New Jersey (top middle, small, medium, and large orbs)


Cairo (top left)


Cairo seminar (two at top left)


Mexico seminar (top left)


Bogota seminar (top mid left)



* May 28th, 2006  Stuttgart seminar

The seminar that started from 7pm was full with people standing at the end and still had about 50 people that were not able to enter.

It seems that the places that showed the movie always brings in a lot of people to my seminar. I’m just so grateful for the creators of that movie.

This town was one of the first places that I did my seminar in Europe about six years ago. I was moved to think about how big and widespread this idea has come to. It made me realize that if it’s the truth and if one believes in it enough, it will reach many people.

By the way, before the seminar, Pierre and I went to visit Klaus Hessmann who lives about an hour drive away from Stuttgart. (please see the diary entry of March 7th about Klaus)

We planned to measure the healing property of Klaus’s stone music using Pierre’s device.
We were able to spend a very valuable, constructive time together. There have been more and more people with unique and interesting researches in new fields appearing in front of me these days. While listening to Klaus’s beautiful music, I imagined having a place where different people can come together and freely share the ideas and research.

That night, I invited Klaus to the stage and introduced him to the audience.
Probably many people will come to receive his healing with music.



* May 25th, 2006Frankfurt seminar

Today is the third consecutive day of the German seminar. Having a seminar three days in a roll is quite tiring; I guess the ideal will be to have them at least every other day.

However, the view we saw from the plane today was very beautiful. I enjoyed the numerous mustard fields. I heard they make oil out of these flowers.

The Frankfurt seminar was in conjunction with a showing of the movie, “What the Bleep Do We Know” so of course the admission was somewhat more expensive. However, about 500 people showed up overall. Apparently this movie was received very well in Germany and is still showing in about 50 different theaters in the country.
The movie started showing in November and have brought about 200,000 people at this moment. And the movie is still showing so I think this movie tapped into the ideas that many Germans resonated to.

This probably means that it will do pretty well in Japan as well but the Japanese movie distributors are still not taking it on. It is too bad that they are too cautious about things like this. However, I believe that this kind of movie is something that Japan needs right now. Aren’t there any investors that will disregard the profit aspect and realize the necessity of a movie like this? I think the Japanese people constantly loosing the courage (and thus the power to express).



* May 24th, 2006  Munich Haar seminar

Six years ago, I first had my seminar in Munich Haar. I was very glad to have many people then. Today the hall was full as well. I feel my sense of responsibility was strengthened up.

I didn’t have Power Point six years ago; I was using filmslides. Sometimes my wife dropped down a slide, and sometimes the rings didn’t get together and stopped projecting. I remember a lot of troubles. Without animation and music, my presentation must have been less fascinating than today. Nevertheless, the people who touched the world of water crystals gave me a lot of applause.

It was three years ago when I used Power Point for the first time. I thought it was too difficult for us to use at first. But the staff members taught me how to use, and now I can’t do without it. My was a computer phobia, but she is a seasoned PC operator now. She is indispensable for my seminar. Her timing to change the slide is perfect. She is my wife.

She goes to Amsterdam after this seminar alone, where my daughter lives. She (my daughter, not my wife) is pregnant and is about to bear my second grandson.
I was glad to have Michelle come to see me.

The renowned Spiegel made this water pitcher, collaborating with her. She is a fan of “The Messages from Water” and helps me a lot. She is supporting NPO related to water, too. I hope I can continue to work with her.
By the way, the organizer of this seminar was a young couple like below.


With Eva and Martin

It was the first time for them to organize an event like this. I heard they sometimes worried about this and that, but everything went all right and they looked really happy. Thank you very much, Martin and Eva!



* May 23th, 2006  Nurnberg seminar: Germany

The movie “What the Bleep Do We Know?!” is on at seventy theaters in Germany at the moment. Thanks to it, I had a lot of people coming to my seminar. I heard some people couldn’t enter.

I visited this city two years ago. I stayed a hotel in suburbia then, so I couldn’t see the city well. This time, I stayed at the hotel near a famous sightseeing spot. I could have walked around the beautiful old city, but my legs didn’t work well and it would hurt my legs to walk on stone pavement. So my wife went for a walk alone, but she returned back very soon. She said that she felt uneasy without me.

There was a restaurant decorated with beautiful flowers and dolls. The lunch we had there was very good. The white asparagus was in season and we enjoyed it very much.

After the seminar, I heard that the FIFA world cup soccer match between Japan and Croatia will be held on June 18th in this town. If I had heard this before the seminar, I could have asked the audience to pray for the victory of Japan! Well, I can hear someone is saying it’s not fair. I think so, too.



* May 20th, 2006  Graz seminar

Before the seminar that was planned that evening, we had a press conference at the hotel. There were many journalists there with interesting questions.

Amongst them was an artist. He was the one that created a love and thanks design as a background of the water fountain in Vienna’s United Nation’s building three years ago. (please see the link below for the diary entry at that time:: http://www.masaru-emoto.net/english/ediary200311.html

At that time, he was not feeling well so I was not able to meet him but this time; he came all the way from Vienna to see me. He brought a beautiful painting for me there. I hope I can introduce that painting later in this diary.

After the press conference, I had a photo opportunity with the hotel’s daughter (left) and the manager. They were very hospitable. Thank you.

She’s a doctor in charge of the medical branch of the hotel. My wife and I both received a couple of very good massage from her (with bath too).

By the way, my wife’s back ache became a lot better thanks to the massage and sitting in the hot spring four times. If her back didn’t improve, who would be carrying all those heavy luggage? (of course, not only about luggage but what if she couldn’t travel much anymore?)
I think it was with everyone’s help that she’s better now. Thank you.

There were many people that came to the seminar that started at 7 that evening. The advance tickets were already sold out four days ago and when I reached the venue, I saw about 50 people at the door trying to get tickets. As a result, although the venue really held about 900, there were about 1000 including the people standing at the back. This is such a great news as a speaker.

The seminar started with a violin performance by a 12 years old musician, Teruhisa Hiraki. He performed two great pieces. The person that introduced him to me was Yuko Iyobe a student of Hado-jyuku. She herself used to be in Austria to study music. Teruhisa’s performance was even better than what she told me. I’m sure he’ll be known for his great performance in Japan soon too.

After the performance, I couldn’t help but to get up on the stage and give him a hug.

We conducted an experiment to send the thought of love and thanks to water that was placed at the lab in Noetic Science Institute in San Francisco. Everyone graciously took part in the experiment as they stood up and put their hands together and said “Water we thank you, water we love you, water we respect you” in German.

At the end, with the lead of the organizer, Burgi who is also a Pranic healer, we sent a positive prana in hopes to relieve the energy that has been building up to create an earthquake in Japan. We showed a large image of Mt. Fuji on the screen for this purpose.

After the seminar, we had a photograph with the Hiraki family. Mr. Hiraki is a oboe player, and Mrs. Hiraki had been studying music as well. I believe that Teruhisa’s talent was nurtured in that atmosphere with the musically talented parents and the city of Graz, which is known for music.

The seminar was organized by Burgi who had organized another seminar in Vienna that brought 1500 people, and in Salzburg that brought 1400 people three year ago. And next September, we are talking about planning an event around music during the music festival in Linz.

The photograph below is at the Graz airport. On the left is Hans Schindler, the developer of Hadoscan, and on the right are Burgi and her partner. They met for the first time then but they got along right away as if they have been friends for years. I think they will be working together in the future too.



* May 19th, 2006  Austria, Graz

From Newark Airport in New Jersey to Frankfurt was about 6 hours and 25 minutes. It really is a lot closer to fly from the US to Europe than from Japan to Europe or from Japan to the US. From Frankfurt to Graz is about an hour. Once we’re in Europe, traveling seems more like an everyday commute.

For the next three days, I will be staying at a hot spring spa called Bad Blumau Hotel.

I was invited by the hotel’s owner since he is a fan of the water crystals. As you can see from the photograph, the place has a hot spring pool, a hotel building, massage rooms, and individual hot spring rooms. The whole place is fitted very well with the surrounding environment with its unique architecture. I was told that it was built by the most famous architect in Austria.

For my wife who loves hot springs, this came as two presents in one. The reason why I say double is because on the flight to Frankfurt, she was not able to sleep well and hurt her back. Will her back recover at this hotel with hot spring and good massage?

The unique architecture blends in very well with the natural hill surrounding the place.


It’s like something out of a fairly tale.



* May 16th, 2006  New Jersey seminar

Today is the last day of my US seminar tour. Since the beginning of the tour at LA on April 13th, I have visited 16 different areas and talked to a total of about 6500 people.

I travel with a tuning fork demonstrating what vibration and resonance is. I did a pretty good job this time too.

I will be turning 63years old soon so it is not very easy physically either. And how many times did I get on a plane during this time? How many interviews or prayer ceremonies? Since I don’t like dairy or meat, the American food does not fit me at all. And there’s always a big amount of stress because of the difference in environment or language.

But what I find the most disturbing is all the noise that exist in this country. For example, the sound of a lawn mower, the vacuum cleaner, siren of a police car, sound of a refrigerator, air conditioner at a cheap hotel, etc. I have not had a real good night sleep ever since I came to the States.

On top of that, there could be up to three hours difference in time within the country. Since I travel from one coast to the other, I’m constantly fighting off jet lag.

One other thing that gets me is the unfriendliness and lack of helpfulness by the people in the service sectors here. Of course, and there’s the lack of exercise since I don’t even have enough time to do some walking once in a while.

So don’t you think I’m doing pretty well in this situation? The reason why I can keep on going is because of everyone’s round of applause and smiles. These have such a great positive vibration that it will throw out all the negative vibration that I piled up on that day.

Also, the most important component is the presence of my wife. She will voluntarily carry bags for me and listens to all my complaints that build up from my everyday life (and of course, she’s pretty). And the Hado water with wheat information at the end of each seminar.

So here I go to the place with the best of this kind, Germany on Lufthansa 403!



* May 14th, 2006  Burlington seminar, Vermont

I suppose everyone who reads my diary knows about Edgar Cayce, but if you didn’t, please visit this website:
http://www.eccj.ne.jp/profile/eclife_fr.html

I had seminar at Cayce Center, where you can learn his great work. The day was the second Sunday of May; it was Mother’s Day. The tickets were sold out, thank you very much.

The photo below is Dr. Cayce, a grandson of Edgar Cayce, who introduced me to the audience.

The hall was full whose capacity was 300. There were about 50 people who were standing outside the door to listen to my speech.

I talked about reincarnation that was based on my own experience, which I never share somewhere else. To my joy, my speech was accepted with standing ovation. If you are interested in my reincarnation story, please follow the link below to go to the website of Project Love & Thanks to Water and see my Christmas message of last year.
http://www.thank-water.net/english/index.htm

There were 3D artworks in the motif of a water crystal at the entrance.

Standing by the artwork is Hiromasa from Hado Life America. Actually, he’s my second son.

On the second floor was a library. The collection of spiritual books is said to be the second largest in the world.

I found my books. Wow!

There were various kinds of facilities, like spa or treatment center. I found a peace pole in the garden.

The peace pole is put up by Goi Peace Foundation. In the country or in the city, everywhere I go, I see one. I guess this is because the people who would invite me love peace. I respect Goi Peace Foundation



* May 13th, 2006  Burlington seminar, Vermont

We passed through the American immigration for the third time without any problem again. I guess we were worrying about it too much.

The organizers had taken us to a local Japanese restaurant last night.

For 20 years the restaurant, SAKURABANA, have been a part of the local community. As you see in the photograph below, the sushi that Mr. Takahashi had made for us were very good. I guess I’m just used to having a Japanese person make the sushi. I feel that at every part of the world I go.

The seminar started at 10:30 this morning and about 800 people showed up at the venue. The population of the town itself is about 350,000 so this was a big percentage of the people comparatively. There must be many spiritually inspired people in this town.

What I was most impressed by was this woman that used all her body and facial feature to present my two hours lecture in sign language. After the seminar, I received a big round of applause and standing ovation so I invited her on the stage to receive the applause.

There was a long line for book signing. Many books were sold out in the end.

Water Ceremony

After the seminar, from around two in the afternoon, a water ceremony was held at a nearby lake. Even though it was raining, about 400 people gathered and enjoyed different performances for about two hours.

This man in blue is Waterman, a popular figure for the locals.

dancing with the swans

There was a man in white (a swan?) that danced the whole ceremony through.

There was a Japanese drum performance as well. But why here in Burlington?

A dance performance as well.

A shishimai appeared too!! The performance was wonderful. It was performed by a woman from Nagano. It came to eat up Hiro, my son who was sitting next to me.

The beginning of a 13 ring performance by a native performer.

There it is, all the 13 rings connected.

To wrap up the ceremony, different people that attended the ceremony took a jug of water and walked around.

They placed the water in the middle and we started the prayer ceremony.

The woman in red sweater on the left is Jessie, one of the organizers of the whole event. She led the prayer expressing the love, gratitude, and respect for water and to the gods of each direction.

A special appearance by a child.

They brought the water that we prayed to by the shore and poured it back to the lake while everyone standing by sang together. It was so moving that I had tears in my eyes.

This is Stuart, the very person that introduced Japanese drum and shishimai to Burlington. His father was a missionary and lived in Japan during childhood. He had been living in Japan for the total of 14 years where he learned Japanese drumming and shishimai. He spoke Japanese very well as well.

This is the other organizer of the event Dianne (on right) and her friend Robert and his wife. They had just gotten married last October.

It rained pretty heavily during the two and half hours of ceremony but I think most of the 400 people that had gathered stayed until the end. Even for us, it was pretty cold but we didn’t feel any strain about staying for the whole time. It shows how moving and fun the whole event was. I’m sure the water in the lake was all very happy too.

One of the things that really made me happy was that a choir created a song about love and thanks and sang it for the whole group. I have been talking about sending love and thanks to water for about 7 years now and I was much moved to see that this idea is spreading throughout the world in different ways.
For those of you that attended the ceremony, and for Jessie, who made this come true, thank you very much.



* May 11th, 2006  Ottwa, Canada seminar

Ottawa is the capital of Canada. The photograph is the Canadian parliament.

Ottawa is said to be a city of tulips so there are many beautiful tulips all over the city. I heard that an upper class Dutch person was taken good care of by Canada so sent many tulip bulbs to show her gratitude.

There were black tulips too.

The building in the back is the hotel that we stayed in and also the place where we had the seminar.

The seminar organized by Learning Annex brought about 250 people together. They all listened very attentively.

After the seminar, a long line of people formed to get my autograph. I try to do as much book signing as possible. My handwriting is pretty messy so I don’t like to write for people much but while I sign books, I can feel that the distance between the people and me become closer and I can feel the warmth of the people. Also, I have a stamp that says Love and Thanks in Japanese that I always stamp on books to give that words’ power to the people. That’s why I try not to say no to book signing no matter how tired I am.



* May 8th, 9th, 2006 Montreal IIIHS Convention

IIIHS stands for International Institute of Integral Human Science, an institute located in Montreal. The main organizer of this event is the small but powerful woman, Marilyn, standing next to me.

(I didn’t have the chance to take a photograph with her this year (although I did hug her four times) so please allow me to use our picture from last year.)

This convention is actually the 31st one, a long history for its kind. 31 years ago, that was when I was still 31 years old. As long as I know there was no organization similar to this one in Japan at that time.

I was invited last year to speak here as well and felt a calm excitement at the history and the accomplishment of this organization.

Because of my schedule, I conducted a couple of workshops and was happy to be in front of a group of very attentive, informed audience. I was able to have a good talk of about five hours in total.

I would love to attend such a convention with a prominent history every year.


at the workshop



* May 6th, 2006  Las Vegas Hay House Convention

Following the Toronto convention last month, I was invited again to Hay House’s I CAN DO IT convention at Las Vegas. I think the last time I was in this town was about 20 years ago.

As you can see it’s a wonder how we become just like another Japanese tourist when we arrive at Las Vegas. I think it may have been a little too much to take such a photograph in front of the limo that came to pick us up.

The seminar that was held at the congress hall in the Venitian Hotel (of course with casino) was filled with mostly women Hay House fans.

The dinner party for the authors were held at a restaurant right beside the Venitian like canal.

I was able to see Dr. Wayne Dyer again. I asked him for a video message for the fans in Japan and he generously gave us a message without a problem.

With Gary Renard, his book is out in Japan as well.

This is the president of Hay House, Reid Tracy. He was an accountant while Louise Hay was the president. He has a very calm wonderful Hado with him.

With Carol Ritberger, an author that I met both in Orlando and Toronto.

Sonia, one of the authors that I met in Toronto was with her daughter (left).

When I think about it, many things happened during the last two weeks.

April 23rd – denied entry to the US at the Canadian land boarder.
26th - entered the US with all our might (nothing actually happened)
27th - receive and award at Tampa seminar
29th/30th – rest and seminar at the Bahamas
May 1st - Baton Rouge seminar --- reminded me of Mr. Hattori’s incident.
2nd - New Orleans, water ceremony at Lake Ponchantrain
--- go visit the hurricane affected areas (I should have seen the destruction before conducting the ceremony.
4th - a wealthy, peaceful city of Houston.
6th - an entertainment city in the middle of a desert.

So it was a two weeks full of ups and downs. Just like a hado. Especially the gap and difference between what I saw in New Orleans and Las Vegas was a very interesting one. On the one hand, a place with too much water, no people, and no hope. On the other hand a desert with money, people, and fire (the lights of the night), and full of greed.

There is a great gap between the energy of the two places. Isn’t there a way to combine these two?



* May 4th, 2006  Houston Seminar

The Houston airport is called George Bush airport. It is named after the father of the current president of the United States. This city is also a home to NASA. Houston was one of the places that I wanted to visit one day.

The seminar in this city was organized by a educational group, especially by the two incredible women, Kath and Pat. We had dinner at Kath’s ranch with about 20 supporters.

There were beautiful horses on the ranch taking its time grazing on grass. It was a sight very removed from the destruction of New Orleans.

There were two large dogs on the ranch. My wife has become friends with them right away.

The lunch today was attended by 25 people, mostly women. After a delicious lunch with organic vegetable, we had about an hour of question and answer period. I was impressed about the depth of the questions and sensed that most people had taken time to read my book.
The woman in pink shirt is one of the organizers, Pat.

As you can see, it is mostly women. I am always supported by the women’s power. This is when we were praying for the people that were affected by Katrina.

A Japanese woman was at the seminar as well.

My wife found out that she was from Yayoi-cho in Nakano, the same place as my wife. So they got along very well from the beginning and she took us to a Japanese restaurant after the seminar.

Her name was Masako Imoto, very similar to my own name. Of course we got along right away as well.
The lady on my left is her daughter, Tania. 18 years ago, Masako had Tania and moved to Houston right away. She took on the role as a vice president at her father’s company’s American branch. She must have worked very hard to be in that environment. (she didn’t tell us this, but I have a feel that was so.)

During that time, she broke up with Tania’s father and brought her daughter up by herself up until now. When her mother left to go to the restroom, Tania told us about how she used to give her mother a lot of trouble because she didn’t have a father but now that she’s 18 and will be attending a college at Baltimore to study international relations to become a diplomat, she is very thankful of her mother and loves her very much. We were very moved to hear that from her.

We meet many Japanese residents at different parts of the world but most of these people are women. I found that they are all very strong, bringing up their children and becoming part of that community. It seems that Japanese women are better at adapting and finding their own place outside Japan than Japanese men.
Tania, I studied International relations as well. I hope you find yourself flying around the world like myself as a diplomat. I hope to see you again.



These two are the organizers of the seminar.

On left is Daria, a Hado Instructor and on right is Dr. Roca from Wholistic Wellness Network. With there organization we conducted a water ceremony at Lake Ponchantrain, a body of water that half way surrounds the city of New Orleans. The ceremony started at 11am and about 150 people had gathered.

Even though it was a weekday, most people came from New Orleans or Baton Rouge. Almost everyone there were in someway affected by the Hurricane last year.

We had asked people to pray to the lake water that we collected from the lake into a jug. We always use this technique when the body of water is bigger than the amount of people gathered. In this way, the energy of the people can concentrate better.

We all put our hands together for this water and said, Water we love you, Water we thank you, Water we respect you.

We sang a Beethoven music for water.

We took the water that we prayed to and returned it back to the lake. Our prayers and thoughts immediately spread throughout the lake.

In the afternoon the two of them took me to the part of town that was badly affected by the flooding. It was very shocking to see all the destruction that was still there. Actually, there was not much of rain during the Katrina but it was the strong wind that pushed the water over the levy from the lake and canal. The water that came of the levy destroyed 250,000 homes and did not recede for over ten days.

It was obvious from the sight that once a home goes under water, it can not be lived in anymore. It has been over eight months since that disaster but the part of town that was affected the most is still like a ghost town. When would the people be returning? When will there be a comprehensive re-housing project?

As a person that had been traveling around the world talking about the beauty and peacefulness of the water, I found myself in big shock and fear. However, at the same time, I felt a stronger urge to keep on doing what I do.

In order for me not to forget this sight, I have taken many photographs. Please allow me to share some of them.

We entered one of the homes. This is a home of Dr. Roca’s friend. He gave us a special permission.


I found myself in shock at the sight.



* May 1st, 2006  Baton Rouge Seminar

Baton Rouge is a city about 100 Km away from New Orleans. This is where Daria, one of the Hado Instructors live. I had asked her to see if I can have a volunteer seminar at New Orleans for the people that were affected by the Katrina Hurricane.

As a result, it was still too difficult to have a seminar in New Orleans so we decided to have one in Baton Rouge where many people who were affected by the hurricane had moved.

The seminar started at five that evening. At the opening, a local group called the Wholistic Wellness Network presented me with an award. The seminar went well with about 200 people there.

Afterwards, we had a reception at a nearby church. I found a couple of memorial stones at their garden to commemorate a sad incident that many Japanese people still remember.

It was about ten years ago, an incident that I remembered as the Mr. Hattori incident. Each stone has a meaning and the father of Mr. Hattori had sent them all the way from Japan. I found myself putting my hands together in prayers for him.

Incident with Mr. Hattori,
October 1992. A 16 year old Japanese student on his way to a Halloween party was mistaken as a burglar and was shot dead. He was shot in Baton Rouge, Louisianna by a man with 44 magnum gun. This is reported widely in Japan and brought shock to the Japanese public when the killer was found innocent. Many wondered if the student could not hear the difference between “freeze” and “please” or that the address of the killer was very similar to the address where the Halloween party was held, or that the killer may have had a racial prejudice.

It’s been about 20 years since I started coming to the States but my English pronunciation has not improved at all. For me, the difference between R and L is very difficult (for example, Rice becomes Lice, or Liver becomes River.).

To the Educational ministery in Japan, can you restructure the English education in Japan?


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