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March 28th, Friday :
At the convention in Bellaria |
The city Bellaria is a sightseeing resort surrounded by Adrian Sea which is located in East Central area of Italy and Mr. Cutolo has organized big conventions since several years ago in this place. I was invited to previous conventions for seminars for 2 times in the past and this will be my 3rd time to attend his convention and this time, it was the biggest convention ever and 1200 people attended the convention.
Convention venue
I met with a lot of friends here.
Giorgio (left) and old time friends
The president of a publishing house (left)
who is interested in working with me and the author.
Famous Italian actor, Marco
At the end, we had delicious lunch at local seafood restaurant together and we said good bye each other. The gentleman to very left is Mr. Citoro who plans to publish a new book together with me. He came all the way from Torino.
I stayed Italy only for 3 days but there were other nice meetings and also I have found a sponsor of Emoto Peace Project so I can say it was a fruitful visit. The country Italy has not responded to my work greatly in the past but I guess it is changing now. I am looking forward the development in many ways in Italy from now on.
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March 26th, Wednessday
To Milan, Italy
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After I separated with Mr. Nemoto in Istanbul, I flew into Milan, Italy by myself. Anna (to the right) who speaks Japanese fluently and Elena who is a designer and a long time friend of mine welcomed me at the airport. It is hard for me to travel alone abroad but it is very helpful that they assist my travel in Italy this time.
Elena brought a beautiful bag for my wife which she made.
And we talked about business which we should work together to create bags like this with water crystal design and establish a new bland. They will start to prepare for this project. Milan is a home of fashion and it is a wonderful project to start from there.
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Wednesday, March 25th :
The visit to Istanbul (Part 4)
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My first visit to Turkey for my work made me feel how much this country is compatible with Japan vibrationally. As a result, I came to think that I would like water crystal lab setting up here and I have met with lots of people who have true heart.
Meeting with a chairman of Doga School
Dinner meeting with a president of publishing house
who publishes my book in Turkey and other friends
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In front of a bookstore which organized book signing event
A lady who attended the event and brought words of Hebrew god
Also, the gentleman in the back is a scenario writer of movies. He is currently working on movie about historical secrets which can connect between Japan and Turkey.
My secretary, Mr. Nemoto who has been traveling together and taking good care of me for 2 weeks. He will go back to Japan after this. Thank you, Mr. Nemoto.
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March 23rd
The visit to Istanbl (Part 3) |
A seminar which is open to public was going to be scheduled today. Hilda, whoknew that I was coming to Istanbul just a month ago organized the seminar.
I was worried how many people will attend my seminar with such a short notice, however the venue at the hotel was full with 200 people.
Among the audience, there was a consul from Japanese embassy in Istanbul who attended the seminar. His name is Mr. Horiuchi and he brought my old Japanese book entitled Truth of Hado which was published in 1994. It was a nice surprise for me.
Also there was a Japanese lady with her Turkish husband who is an artist coming from all the way from Germany.
After I came to Turkey, I felt Japanese ladies are compatible with Turkish guys. I saw 4 different Japanese and Turkish couples and they looked all happy. The translator for my seminar today, Chizuru was also one of them and she came to Turkey 35 years ago to get marry with her Turkish husband. She said she is 35th Japanese wife of Turkish husband there.
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Monday, March 23rd:
The Visit to Istanbul Part 2 |
The Visit to Doga School in Ushukudara
There is a famous song about Ushukudara and I am happy to come to Ushukudara and give a seminar today. The translator of my seminar who learned Japanese at University of Nigata, was welcoming us at the entrance of the school. The welcome posters were made by students based on her instruction.
Before my seminar, I greeted the principal of the school. The gentleman on the right is an English teacher of the school.
At first, Seda gave an introduction.
They have a wonderful seminar hall which is theatre style and about 200 students were there to hear my talk.
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March 21st, Friday:
The Visit to Istanbul, Turkey Part 1 |
Friday, 21st of March
Arrival at Istanbul and welcome sinner party by students of Doga school
My visit to Turkey this time was organized by an unique school called Doga School which implements new education programs in their system and the students of the school initially motivated school to invite me to the school to give seminars. The first trigger for this was that one student translated children’s book into Turkish. And the student made a project team and printed 10,000 copies of the book with the school. The students of the school welcomed me at the airport.
The girl namely Seda handed me beautiful flowers. She was so helpful after she realized I have a problem with my legs.
In the evening, welcome dinner party was organized by the students. Of course the teachers were there too but I saw a student worked as a party host and I was impressed with their independence.
We took some pictures together. Every one of them are so cute and giving out good Hado.
Friday, 22nd
A visit to Doga school
We went to Doga School today. This school has 7 different campus and the school I visited today is the main campus and the school is well located near by nature and one of their educational method is natural education.
We took a picture at the entrance of the school
We had some light lunch together with some teachers and their staffs. The translator for me today is Ismail (sitting in front of me ) who studied at University of Okayama, Japan for 14 years and his wife (Japanese) and children were there too. Also, a lady from Hokkaido, Junri was there with her son who is also a student of the school and her husband who runs travel agency.
After that, my seminar was started at the seminar hall of the school. One of the project members, Parish was there and gave an introduction. He is only 15 years old but he is very big and fluent in English. He also has a lot of interest in water crystal photography and told me to learn more about it.
There were a lot of parents of the students in the seminar
And today was Water day which was established by United Nation and students had some exhibition something relate to water at the school. Coincidently, the World Water Forum was held in Istanbul and students attended the event there took pictures with his Imperial Highness of Japan and those pictures were exhibited and Mr. Nemoto who traveled with me was so exited to see those photos.
Picture with lower grade students
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March 16th , Sunday:
The Visit to the Netherlands |
Sunday, March 16th
We flew to Amsterdam through Frankfurt from Doha. Originally, I was planning to fly to Amsterdam through Istanbul by Turkish airline flight 1951 but I changed the flight to Lufthansa because the same flight crashed while attempting to land on Feb 25th.
I found a poster like below at the airport in Amsterdam. It is very similar to the slid that I show at my seminar so I would like to introduce this shot.
My daughter’s friend, Tomomi came to the airport to help to give us a ride from there to Delft. It was so helpful and thank you, Tomomi.
Tuesday, 17th of March
Seminar at Unesco-IHE in Delft
The translator for the seminar was Ouwehand Shizuko. She is now based in Okinawa, Japan but she has some work to do in The Netherlands so she comes back here once in a month. I feel like she was my mother in my past life and I always hug her like this when we meet.
My seminar was scheduled at 5pm today at Unesco IHE where I gave a seminar 5 years ago.
There are a lot of students from all over the world who study about water profit, and water transport. After the seminar, we had a small gathering with them.
With students from Colombia
With students from Indonesia
Sculpture which was decorated in the building called
“A water drop of life”
Wednesday, 18th of March
I had a book signing event and small seminar at local bookstore which is only the schedule today so I went on a sightseeing a little bit. I went to a beautiful cathedral near by our hotel.
When we were having lunch at the restaurant in front of the cathedral, I saw a guy who has a tattoo which is written “Economical depression” in Japanese in his arm. I was really curious if he really knows the meaning of the tattoo and I could not help to ask him. And he replied “Yeah I know the meaning. Bad econom, right? But dont worry, I will kick it out!”
And I had a book signing event at a large bookstore in Den Haag.
More than 200 people came.
Thursday, March 19th
Do you know a Dutch soccer player namely Edgar Davits? If you are soccer fan, you must know him. He is a very famous soccer player who used to be a national member for Dutch soccer team.
I got a contact through his agent from him last fall and he told me he wants to meet me. And I replied yes but after all the meeting was cancelled becauseI became ill at that time.
So before I visited the Netherlands this time, I contacted him and told him that I am visiting the Netherlands. He replied to me and said he would love to see me. Even though he stayed South Africa which holds World Cup soccer next year, he came all the way back to The Netherlands just to see me this time. He even changed his schedule and arrange the meeting with me. I was so moved by this.
We spent about 3 hours with him over lunch and had nice discussion and as a result, he offered to be a sponsor of a children book for Emoto Peace Project for Dutch.
Internationally renown sports athlete like him gives us a support for this project and I am sure this project will be successful.
Thank you very much Mr. Davits!!
Friday, 20th of March
We attended a big conference in Utrecht today. The conference is for Doctors of Western medicine and alternative medicine. It is organized by organization called ABB.
This is the venue of the conference
As you can see in the picture, full of people, about 700 people were seated at the big theater.
The musician, “To Be” whom I met in Zaragoza last August came to the conference and performed just before my seminar. Their performance was so wonderful.
Then my seminar started..
Lots of acquaintance of mine joined the conference.
The first, Dr. Lazlo and Dr. Sagi who came to my office last year.
The Hado Instructor from Belgium, Mr. Geert.
And Levien from Belgium and his friend. They are planning a big event in Belgium in February and I am planning to attend.
And also I met with Mr. Johan Boswinkle who is an inventor of some Hado devices I work with in Japan.
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March 15th, Sunday:
Seminar in Doha
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Another seminar in Middle East was conducted in the capital of Qatar, Doha on the 14th. It took 1.5 hours by an airplane from Kuwait and the first thing I felt when I arrived there was that it is hard to see the view. It is a city in desert so sand storm often happens here.
You see the entire city is blurred even though the sun is shinning.
The organizer of Doha seminar is a representative of Qatar branch which Dr. Salah manages. He is also famous as a forecast reporter in Al Jazeera TV network.
He came to the airport and welcomed us and we were taken to a very nice hotel called Ramada Hotel.
The room was great but the best thing about this hotel is there are some bars inside and if you are a foreigner, you are able to drink alcohol. So the rule is different depending on the country in Middle East. However Saudi Arabia I visited last year was completely No to drink alcohol no matter who you are.
The place where the seminar was held was a gathering hall which can accommodate only 80 people at most.
Seats are divided by men’s and lady’s with a partition wall in the midle like above and there were about 10 seats for men and 40 for ladies. I arrived there at 5:15pm and there were nobody there at that time even though the seminar is scheduled to start at 6pm. And the organizer of the seminar told me he does not have any idea how many people coming to the seminar today. It could be 10 people or could be 50 people. It is always like this in this city. My energy was going down as I heard that from him.
We had some fun talk with the organizer until 6pm in a different room and I came in the room curiously after that. But there were more people than I expected in the seminar room. There were 5-6 men but more than 30 ladies with traditional clothes. There were only 3-4 ladies who hid their face with Niqāb so I could clearly saw most of their faces. I could immediately receive their elegance and intelligence. I gained my energy back and started to talk with some intensity.
My seminar took 2 hours and after that Q and A session took place. People were so active asking questions and it did not end until the organizer told us to finish. It was very meaningful seminar despite of fact there were only 40 people. After we came back to hotel, we toast with beers which was the first time for me to drink in Middle East.
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March 13th. Friday :
Going to Middle East |
I left Japan on the 10th. My destination is Kuwait, Middle East. However, we came in Washington DC after 12 hours of flight. Then we took a flight to Kuwait which takes 12 hours and I have arrived here in Kuwait on March 11th at 4:30pm. It was a total of 36 hours of travel and my body was so exhausted. There is a direct flight to Kuwait from Japan and that takes only 11 hours. Why I came in the U.S then? Of course it is because of economical reason. The package tour namely around the world by Star Alliance is very discounted and I always used this tour.
Originally, the tour to Middle East was planned with a visit to Kuwait, Dubai, Doha and Cairo but due to the world economy crisis, seminars in Dubai and Cairo have been cancelled and seminars in Kuwait and Doha are going to happen. The person who invited me there this time is Dr. Salah Al-Rashed of Al-Rashed Franchise Inc which provides educational training to companies and has 11 branches in Middle East. Dr. Salah is a member of honorable family of Al-Rashed and he organizes education and training divisions and he has just invited Ms. Lynne McTaggart from UK to there for seminars. He invites a lot of visionary speakers from Europe for the training of his clients and staffs.
The country Kuwait said to be a country which has 4th biggest oil resource in the world but all I remember about this country is a country that was attached by Iraq in Gulf War so I wanted to check how much this country has rebuilt since then this time. When we arrived at the airport, Dr. Salah and his staff were there to pick us up. Later I found out he is a very recognized person in Kuwait and it is such an honor to being picked up by him directly.
After we arrived hotel, we had a dinner at Japanese restaurant called Wasabi and there was also a translator of my seminar who is a professor at University of Cairo for Japanese literature namely Dr. Ahmed. He brought 2 books which were translated from Japanese into Arabic by him at the dinner. These books are Japanese ancient books and he has a deep knowledge of Japanese literature including Japanese Shinto books. He is the best person to translate my seminar and I am glad that he came all the way from Cairo.
The seminar was scheduled next day at 6:30pm and I had some interviews from 2 different companies and Dr. Salah took us to a famous sightseeing spot which is Kuwait tower. We had lunch in the tower and went up in the top and looked down the town from the observatory. I saw a lot of skyscrapers and that tells me this country has a lot of energies.
According to Dr. Salah, most of 2.5 million of people living here in Kuwait are given salary from the country plus medical cost and educational cost are free to them so it is a privileged welfare state. Of course it is because of the funds which come from oil business. I saw a lot of happy looking people on the street and I felt no effect of an attack by Iraq 18 years ago in both materially and mentally.
My seminar took place at the hotel we stayed at 6:30pm and 260 seats in the seminar room filled up quickly. I can say 70% of the audience was female and there were some members from Royal family of Kuwait joined my seminar and listened my talk intently
in the first low of the seats.
I had some seminars in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia about a year ago but comparatively speaking, the atmosphere of the seminar this time is more relaxing and they reacted to my jokes too so I had a very good and relaxing seminar. Also after the seminar we had questions and answers session and there were a lot of positive questions. I felt that the people in this country have very advanced thinking.
As a result, D. Salah proposed to have Hado Instructor school here in Kuwait and I accepted the proposal. This is a historical thing for both of us and I am very exited about this plan. Something will happen from this country from now on.
The organizer, Dr. Salah, left and the translator of the event
Kuwait Tower there is an observatory on the top.
It is 120 meter high
Entrance of my seminar
The seminar started with Mr. Nemoto’s speech
Seminar room. Men stayed left and women stayed right.
It is a natural thing here.
We toast withy beers. But truth was that they are non alcohol beers. Drinking alchool is forbidden in this country.
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