This seminar materialized because of Dee whom I met at Kho Samui in Thailand at the end of last year. There were few big banners displayed near the entrance of the hotel by the sea.

At the entrance to the venue

At the venue, I found Kousei Koyama (the script writer of Dragon Ball Z), a friend of mine there. He　has already been to this country 22 times.

There was a love and gratitude banner at the venue.

Beach from the garden in the hotel.

People started to gather at the venue.

My lecture started under the palm trees.

People listened very intently.

After the seminar, we went to a good Japanese restaurant that a person that helped out at the seminar owns.

With the family of Kaizan restaurant

Pamela was the organizer of this event. She is 1/8 Japanese.

Next me is Dee, the one that made this Bali seminar possible.
I had a great time at Bali. Thank you very much. .

I left Japan yesterday on a start of another world tour, this time for two months.
These are the places I will be visiting:
Jakarta/Bali (Indonesia)
Singapore
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
Wellington (New Zealand)
Perth, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Gold Coast (Australia)
Innsbruck (Germany)
Lichtenstein
Sea of Galilee (Istrael)
Amsterdam (Holland)
Mexico City/Cancun (Mexico)
Jacksonhall (USA)

Today is its very first day, I had my very first seminar in Jakarta.

There were many media coverage

Indonesia is an Islamic country but even Mr. Abdulha, one of the leading figure of the country came to see me as well.

At this symposium that was held at one of the best hotels in Jakarta,
the minister of health and welfare came to say a word.

With the staffs of the local water company who had organized the seminar.

here was only one prefecture in Japan where I had not given a seminar before.
It was Akita prefecture. However, I did go to Akita for a seminar, but it was put off because of a hurricane.
But finally, it was realized. I went to Iwate yesterday to give a seminar for a group of Sotoshu. Iwate is near Akita, so I decided to go to Akita.

That was rather a short notice, so not many people came to my seminar. But I had a very touching moment; I received an email from a school teacher named Miyuki Kawaguchi from Yamagata:

Please forgive me for sending you this unexpected mail. I just wanted to inform you about my experience. I am a big fan of your books. I am a junior-high teacher in Yamagata prefecture. I did the rice experiment with my students in the fall of 2002.
We said “Thank you”, “You fool” and nothing to each of the three jars of rice. The result was the same as written in your books. After the experiment, I kept the three jars in one box and left them somewhere in my house. Three years passing, I opened the box and what I saw surprised me a lot. The three bottles had been kept under the same condition, but there was a big difference: There were brown grains of rice in the thank-you-jar. In the you-fool-jar, there were darker and less grains. And no grains in the ignored jar; it went into liquid form. I showed them to my students. When they smelled each jar, they found the ignored jar had the worst stinking smell. I could throw away them, but one of my colleague teachers told me that I should keep them as they could be a good educational material. Then another year passed, and I had an open class on the power of words. I use water crystal pictures and the three jars. The students seemed excited at the fact, and they thought they should care about the words they use. In the class, I tried to open the lid so that they could smell, but in vain. I just wanted to inform you of my experience, so I tried sending an email. Thank you. Miyuki Kawaguchi

She attached three photos below. The experiment started in 2002, four years ago

The thank-you-jar

The you-fool-jar

The ignored jar

After sending me the email, she found the information about my seminar in Akita in the website and came to meet me at the Akita seminar.
As I heard that she was coming to my seminar beforehand, I prepared slides of her rice experiment to show the people. On the day of the seminar, Ms. Kawaguchi showed up with the three jars at the backstage dressing room.
The jars went through the experiment for four years. The rice in the thank-you-jar barely keeps the grains, but the ignored totally went into liquid form.
She said “Do you want to smell them?” I replied without hesitating “Yes, of course.” First I smell the ignored, it was stinking. On the other hand, the thank-you rice smelled sweet. I was moved. Again, I confirmed the power of words.
Then I asked her how she kept the jars. She answered that it was in the same box.
Here I was moved again, as it meant that the change caused by the words kept on affecting for years.
I got a fresh reminder of the great power of water. Thank you very much Ms. Kawaguchi.

Miyuki Kawaguchi and the jars

Today, Mr. Ryohei Kamiwatari visited our office to gather material for an article. He wrote a lot of self-development books. It has been two years since I met him at Ikaho, where two of us were invited by an group of Gunma prefecture to give a lecture.

Mr. kamiwatari and I

I remember I couldn’t help but cry when I heard his talk..
We enjoyed talking for two hours. Our conversation will be on a magazine soon.
He gave me a letter below. Does he have an excellent handwriting. I am accustomed to the computer society, and I felt shocked at his letter.

While I was abroad, president of IHM Mr. Hazaka reformed the head office in Tokyo and built a seminar hall Astrea. I have long wanted to have our own. We had an opening party today inviting a lot of guests.

Astrea is Goddess of Justice, who was the last god/goddess to stay on earth to save mankind in Greek mythology. It is Mr. Hazaka’s idea to name the hall Astrea. This morning, I found out interesting things about Astrea.

During the Golden Age, mankind led the life happy without care. In those days, Gods and mankind lived together.
Astrea, Goddess of Justice, was holding the Scale of Libra to discriminate between good and evil. But it always swung to good.
But! Mankind unlocked Pandora’s Box, and they became wicked and the earth was filled with conflicts. All of sudden, Astrea got to go around the world with the scale in her hand. Other gods/goddesses had left the earth for heaven.
Astrea was patient and said to herself, “I can’t desert humans. I’m going to do my best to bring them to justice and reclaim them.” But the scale never pointed to good, always evil. Humans continued to hate each other and at last, they began to kill each other. Astrea was at a loss and ascended to heaven, saying “I would never return if real peace didn’t prevail on earth.”

Will the day come when Astrea return to earth? I was very surprised to find Astrea acted with the Scale of Libra to discriminate between good and evil, as I also am talking to people around the world about what is good and what is bad with an instrument, Hado measuring device for twenty years. In addition, I was going to give a speech about HadoScan, which I reckon as the ultimate Hado measuring device, for the opening ceremony of this seminar hall.

HadoScan

A screen of HadoScan

I think this is a great synchronicity. I appreciate Mr. Hazaka’s plan to spread Astrea seminar halls and salons all over the country. I’m going to do my best to realize this idea with him.
Please visit Astrea and experience the 21st century type of the Scale of Libra.
Appointment necessary.
Tel： 81-3-3863-0860
Fax： 81-3-3866-3763

Entrance of Astrea

From June 12 to 17th was the Fourth Hado Instructor school that was held in Allamuchy, New Jersey. It was held at an inn with lots of nature around.

There was a beautiful pond right behind the hotel. It was hard to believe that it was located only about an hour and half away from New York City.

There were families of geese there.

The water fountain reflected beautifully on water. It’s a happy thing to be able to have a school in such a great environment.

The school started with my lecture. The very first topic was My Life and Hado. My life was pretty much like a hado, with lots of troughs and peaks. I tried to explain why I was where I was through understanding what I have gone through.

The second lecture was “What is Hado” I went through 500 slide presentation as well as my full body expression to explain what hado is. All these 500 slides are provided to the students.

Mr. Hazaka’s lecture, “Life Design” always brings tears to the students.

The lecture, “Japanese Mind, Zen Mind” by Rev. Matsumura always washes out our hearts. There seems to be increasing interest in Buddhism as well.

We now have a new lecturer, Hans Schindler, from Austria. The topic of the lecture was about HadoScan. It was a great success and most of the students attended his optional course on the last day.

This is at our dinner party that was held at a restaurant surrounded by beautiful nature. Time flew by very quickly as we all connected with one another just like old friends.

Rev. Matsumura offered some Japanese tea for us.

This time, we had 26 new instructors. Now, we have the total of 116. We will have a course in Australia in July, Mexico in August, and Europe in November. I’m hoping there will be at least 200 by the end of this year.
At this instructor school, I have come up with an outline of the group and have received support from everyone.
The basic outline is as follows:
1. start up an official International Hado Membership
2. it will be run by the Hado instructors
3. there will be board members selected from Hado instructors
4. there will be sectional groups within the instructor members
Once more details are decided, I am hoping to share that here in my diary again.

Following the last book, Water’s Miracle that will Change You, that was published last September, my new book Healing of Water has been published.

This book has been published by the same publisher (Seishun shuppan publishing) and is a little different from any previous books. I have selected 50 words and its crystals, representing the 50 Japanese alphabets. And I have written how I feel about these each words.

For example, “a” will be “ai kansha (love and thanks)”, “i” will be “ikigai (purpose of life)” and so on, ending with “wa” meaning peace.

Of course, it’s perfectly fine to read this book from front to back but you can also just plop open a page when you have time and soak in the photograph and the word that you come across. Take this word in as the word that will help you at that moment. So you can use it like a deck of oracle cards too.

The publisher had especially targeted women as the readers of this book but the very first letter I received about the book was from a man.

Dr. Emoto,
Hello, I have just retired from my previous company in February and am recharging myself for a new job. However, I guess the recharger itself is not working so well that it is taking a little longer than planned to start a new step right now.

Well, the reason why I write to you is because I wanted to share my personal way of using your new book, Healing of Water.

I go through all the crystal photographs of the book each day. And then I go back and look at a single picture that spoke to me that day. Since I look at these photographs everyday, because my feelings are always changing, the photograph I chose always changes as well. And the length of time I will take to look at one specific one changes too.

These are the times that make me realize that we are always changing, just like water is always changing. I can also feel that these photographs are helping me change within. I feel that this is another good way of utilizing this book.

By the way, a friend of mine is not feeling well so I sent him your book in hopes that by looking at all the beautiful crystals, he may feel better soon.
In the end, I would like to express my respect and appreciation for your work.

Thank you
June 6th, 2006

As I have explained in the diary entry yesterday, one of my life’s work is the research of kotodama (spirit of words). I wrote this book in hopes that by feeling and interpreting different words, it will help relieve some of the reader’s daily stress or worries.

We have opened a seminar room with a big overhead projector screen. The official opening of the place will be on June 20th.

As a start, we had a test run of a international internet conference. The person you see on the right is Dr. Escudero from Valencia, Spain. The one on the left is Hans Schindler, the developer of HadoScan, he is currently in New Jersey, USA. (He is training three of our staffs there and will be staying there to lecture at our Hado Instructor school). The woman in the front is Ms. Hayashi, one of our staffs that can speak Spanish.

Ms. Hayashi translating

On our side, we had invited Dr. Ishikawa who used to be a professor at ICU. There also was IHM president, Mr. Hazaka, Mr. Otake, and of course myself.

Dr. Ishikawa taking interest in the process.

Since it was our first time and the facility was not perfect yet, there were some technical glitch but we were able to have about an hour of conference in the end. Dr. Escudero in Spain was very happy as well.

our staffs worked hard to make this work

I would like to introduce Dr. Escudero a little here.

Last September, on my way to a water conference in Spain, a friend had recommended me to go see a medical doctor in Valencia.

When I met him, I was pleasantly surprised. Although he was over 70 years old, he was a master in painting, sculpture, music, and poetry. And also was conducting operations on people without using any anesthesia. His method was to let the patient listen to his music CD or him reading out loud. By imputing vibrations with certain meanings, he is discarding the fear for pain before the operation.

At his clinic, he has a meeting room/studio where he showed us a footage of how he conducts his operation.

There was a large screen in front of us as it showed the footage. My wife had to leave the room in the middle because of the realistic stages of the operation. The patients in the film are all looking fine, reading books or talking with a smile.

Dr. Escudero was interested in the water crystal photography so wanted to meet me for a while. Unfortunately, even though his practice is superb, the modern medical world has not paid any attention to it.

So, I had invited him to speak at the Hado medical association in Japan but he told us that he decided not to travel too far since he is too old now. However, he said that he can always use the internet and conduct conferences and seminars anywhere and anytime so he is always utilizing that. He asked us to have the same facility so that he can have closer connection with the people in Japan.

I promised that we will and told that to our president. When I came back to the office after two months of seminar tour, the set up of today was there as a pleasant surprise. I am so lucky to have such a person to take after me.

Dr. Escudero is the very person that uses kotodama, to operate without any anesthesia. On the other hand, there is Hans at New Jersey who developed the kotodama scanner. It was a great line of people to line the very first internet conference. I think there will be more great things to come.

I came back to Japan yesterday. I met Ms. Chie Mizutani at her office today. She is really good at reading the former incarnation. Several years ago, I myself got her reading, and it gave food for thought to me. After that, I understood my life totally. Thanks to her, I am living less self-doubting than before. For the detailed information of my former incarnation, please visit the website below and read my Christmas message:
http://www.thank-water.net/english/index.htm

This time, I got Cosmo Therapy instead of former incarnation reading. This Cosmo Therapy was established by Dr. Gumbel, who is German and as old as I.

First, you are required to pick a color out of 13, following your intuition. I picked out pink. Then she selected aroma oil and drinking oil according to the color. I tried them and felt relaxed.

Next, you are wrapped up with a robe of the color you picked out. Then you are exposed to colored light and sound, holding a gemstone, lying down with your eyes closed.

In this way, your five senses are awakened and six sense will be developed. I can see indigo, purple, orange and white dancing against black in my closed eyes.

I regained my energy full and overcame the fatigue due to the long trip. I recommend you this therapy.

It is 2:55 pm on June 6th 2006 at Amsterdam’s Lufthansa airport lounge.

Just about an hour earlier, my daughter, Yoko bore a healthy boy. And coincidently, I was able to be present at the time when the baby was born and hear his crying. He had full hair on his head and looked very healthy.
The reason why I say it was a coincidence was because of the following reason:

My daughter left for the hospital early this morning with my wife to give birth. My flight was leaving at 4 in the afternoon so I called a taxi at 1:20 to go to the hospital. I arrived at the hospital at 1:35 and found my wife waiting for me at the entrance. “Her contraction started but probably the baby will not be born right away. Well, let’s go see her anyways.” However, I waited around right outside the operation room. I didn’t want to distract my daughter. I did stop a nurse and explained that I am a water researcher and would like to have amniotic fluid as sample. She told me that she’ll ask the nurse in charge. (however, she forgot about it in the end…I wanted to take a water crystal photograph of it. )

Soon, my wife came out and said, “you should leave now, the cab is waiting right? I’ll let Yoko know that you were here.” “ok, then I guess I’ll go.” So, finally, I wasn’t able to be there for my children or grandchildren again... I thought as I walked out the door. Then I realized that I still had Yoko’s house key in my pocket. “oops, I should give this back” I thought and returned back to the operation room.

“Can you give this key to my wife?” I saw the same nurse so I handed it to her. As I was about to get on the elevator, the operation room opened up again and she came out saying “wait, the baby is born!!”

“What? Really?” I was thinking as I walked in the room. There, I heard a strong crying voice of a baby. Another nurse lead me to the opposite side of the room and there, I saw a big baby with full black head hair crying aloud.

My wife was full of tears. I felt something on the brim of my eyes as well seeing the whole scene.
I was enjoying that moment when my daughter cut the thought off with a steady voice, “dad, you should go now, have a safe trip, thanks.”

“oh, ok then. I’ll be leaving take care.” I said and left without lingering. (in reality, I couldn’t find a comfortable space in that operation room.

Oh, and here’s my boarding announcement. I’ll write the rest when I get home.
So, here I am, safely back in Japan. It is 4:50 in the evening of the 7th. I found an e-mail from my wife and she told me that the baby was born at 1:50 Holland time. So just about 20 hours earlier. He weight a good weight of 3770 grams.

On the plane back I cerebrated by myself with a glass of shoju with hot water. I shared the good news with the flight attendant who brought my second glass. Then, at the end of the trip, she brought a message from the flight crews. It says:

Dear Mr. Emoto,
Congratulations on your grandson’s birth.
We suspect that you would have wanted to be with him a little longer.
We wish you and your family the best.
2006 JUN6 NH210 crew
and there was the name of the captain there.

Apparently, the new baby’s name will be Sora (meaning: sky). Because the name of his father means mountain, mother, sea, and the brother, land.

Would this baby be a airplane pilot when he grows up? No, probably an astronaut.
By the way, the crews of ANA, thank you for a thoughtful gesture. I will keep that message safely so I can show it to the baby when he gets older.

After 50 days of seminar tour starting from April 12 in the US, to Canada, Bahamas, Austria, Germany, and Italy, I finally came back to my home in Europe, to my daughter’s house in Amsterdam. There, my wife who came in earlier to help with my pregnant daughter, and my grandson, Riku was waiting.

Oh and I can’t forget the master of the house, Niko the cat. With the cat and my grandson, I’m so happy that my fatigue of the tour is gone right away.

This is a memorable photograph for the grandparents because it’s the very first photograph that Riku took for us.

See, he’s grown so much. Doesn’t he look intelligent?

The swan family that live at a nearby stream. I guess they had some babies a little before my daughter. The due date is on the 6th of June, the day I’m scheduled to return home. Will I be able to meet the baby before I leave?

After a short but very pleasant say in Italy, Gianluigi brought me a local newspaper. It reported on the seminar I had on the 31st with a photograph.

I don’t understand Italian but a few words jumped out at me. They were: ACQUA GURU EMOTO.

I asked Gianluigi, “does this mean ‘water guru, Emoto’?” and he told me yes.
So, it has come to that, I though.

I don’t like the word guru. And do not fancy much for those people that are called guru either. People tend to want to create a guru, hero, or a messiah type of character. However, I do not think this is a good tendency. This is because a single person cannot do anything by him/herself. When people rely on one single person, people tend to give up their own responsibility. Didn’t our history repeat made mistakes because of this? We shouldn’t leave it all up to a single person but we should all be responsible for the peace and betterment of the world.

So, I’m just like anybody else, hope I don’t become a guru for anyone.

Today is a memorable day for me. It was my father’s birthday, my parents’ wedding anniversary, and the publishing day of the very first print of Message from Water.

For that special day, Matheo and his friends had planned a water ceremony in front of the Santa Maria della Salute Church in Venice. It was a great location for the purpose.

The weather was not great until yesterday but it became sunny today and about 100 people gathered.

As we stood in circle, look at the sky:	It’s starting to make a shape.	It’s starting to make a shape. The cloud made a V sign, a sign of victory, and the meaning of my name, Masaru.

We had a nice lunch later. The man on the right, second one from the far end is Gianluigi, a person that’s been my friend since I started coming to Italy in the beginning,

After the ceremony, I had a book signing at a nearby bookstore. There were three new books in Italian. The woman next to me is Elena; she was the woman that planned the event in Venice.

We conducted a short seminar at the bookstore’s seminar hall. There were many people that could not come yesterday there too.

This is Matheo from Aqua Lissa. We decided that the next July 25th ceremony will be held in Venice.

By the way, my daughter is expecting her second child right now. (the due date is June 6th) I was personally hoping that she may give birth today, a day that has a lot of special meanings for me. However, my hope was not realized. Maybe it’s because I was with Matheo for the last three days. When I type Matheo in Japanese, it comes out as something like “wait the birthing”!

Well, for all the people in Italy, thank you for having me.

I would like to share Aqua Lissa’s water crystal in the end. It looks very much like the crystal for Love and Thanks.