Morgan Fisher’s Live Concert

On Wednesday, English musician Morgan Fisher who has been living in Japan for about 25 years visited my office.
Many of you who are music lovers must know him, but let me introduce his brief background as follows for those who don’t know him.

Born in London, England, 1st January 1950.
First band: The Love Affair (#1 with "Everlasting Love" in 1968).1973-76 played keyboards with seminal British rock band Mott the Hoople, who were produced by David Bowie. In 1980 conceived and produced the unique "Miniatures" album (51 one-minute tracks by Robert Fripp, Michael Nyman, The Pretenders, XTC, The Penguin Cafe Orchestra, The Damned, etc. A sequel was released in 2000). Played with Queen on their 1982 tour of Europe. In 1985 moved to Japan and started to make ambient and improvised music. Became one of the top TV commercial music writers, including songs written or arranged for Cat Power, Karin Krog, Jose Feliciano and Zap Mama. Japanese artists he has worked with include Yoko Ono, Dip in the Pool, The Boom, Heat Wave, Kina Shoukichi, Haruomi Hosono, Kokoo. He continues his varied life as keyboard player, composer, film scorer, producer, and photographer.

We first connected through facebook as he sent me a friend request. Then, I invited him over to my office because I wanted to show him some film clips of growing water crystal. We have been taking movies of water crystal after being exposed to music for some years. Up until now, we have already made them with over 50 pieces of music. So, I wanted to see how he thinks about this kind of film art, knowing that he is not only a musician but also a visual artist who has a wonderful sensibility.


I asked Morgan how he ended up living in Japan. He said one of the reasons staying here is that he loves Japanese food so much, especially natto, fermented soybeans. I immediately grew very fond of this unusual foreigner and we became friends.
The next day happened to be the day he performed live in Nishiazabu, so he invited us over. Many of us at our office love music very much, so total of 9 people went to listen to his live.

The show started around 8:00 pm. It was very unique as it showed film images on the three huge screens on stage ceaselessly along with his music until the performance ended after 9:30 pm.
Music, colors, images that reminds me of modern art, and comfortable sofa healed me as I enjoyed drinking tasty beer for a good 2 hours.


Facebook friends were able to form wonderful friendship in real life in these two days.
Facebook….such a useful tool.

A check has arrived from Graziella Zanoletti in Switzerland

Today, we had a ceremony of receiving donation at our office. Rasmus from Lichtenstein laboratory is staying in Japan now, and he brought 18,000 Swiss franc check issued by Graziella in Zurich.

Graziella is an entrepreneur, the Chief Inspiration Officer of a company named Elite Rent-aCar Switzerland. This is a nice company who rents beautiful cars all over Europe and has a worldwide chauffeured service.  Graziella is a big supporter of mine in Switzerland, and we have been friends for about 7 years.

She supported my seminar when I visited Geneva last October. I gave her a painting titled “Harmony” in return at the venue. This wonderful artwork was painted by Mr. Takahashi with his hope to achieve world peace. He always gives several pieces of this painting when I travel overseas so that I can give it on behalf of him when I see someone very special.

Graziella is on the right.
Graziella was very touched when she heard that I have been visiting disaster areas to give out MRET Angel Water for charity. She said she would like to offer a donation to support this work, and gave a check to us through Rasmus.
Graziella, I thank you so much from the bottom of my heart. I love you.
Masaru Emoto

Facebook - Social Network

On June 11, I made a comment as follows.
“The wonderful weapon was given to us. We are able to send out our message through internet.”
I think a good example is making a circle of friends on Facebook.
According to Wikipedia, about 500 million people are using facebook currently, and SocialBakers  says over 700 million people are using.
However, Japan has only 700,000 users domestically. This number is very low compare to other countries.

Why?

I think one reason is that Japanese people in general do not feel very comfortable using English.

Another reason might be that you are supposed to expose your real name and picture in public on facebook in principle.
Japanese people were known as being modest in the past. And modesty was considered a beautiful quality. 　
However, this kind of culture has created Japanese being too submissive and subservient as expressed in proverbs such as;
You cannot win against someone who doesn't listen to reason (e.g. a crying child or a violent lord);
You can't fight City Hall

Or;

If you can't beat them, join them. That's the easiest way to get through life.
Yield to the powerful.
As a result, people feel government and politics are something very far away from them.

But, I would like to say that we are not living in the old age any more.
We need to be more and more outspoken. We all should be able to share our opinion openly.
I was already over 60 when I learned how to use a computer, so I only knew how to type, how to exchange e-mail, or how to do a google search. But, gradually, I have learned more about computer and internet from my company staff.

So, I came to know that social network system such as facebook or mixi has amazing potential.
Now, the number of my facebook friends reached 5000, and I cannot accept any more friend request. But, still, I keep receiving messages from people around the world asking me to be their friend. The content of these messages are so wonderful. So, I asked my staff to expand the friend request allowance.
As soon as it is finished, I will send my message tomy facebook friends like every day.
It is so wonderful to be able to become friends with people around the world while staying in Japan.

Today seems like the day of water crystal photographers.

Today was the lab photographer Ken’s birthday, so we all celebrated the day together. His friend introduced him first, and he has been working for us for 10 years since then. He has now grown up to someone who is very important in our office.

When we were having this celebration, the legendary photographer Mr. Ishibashi who took the very first water crystal picture showed up. Without any notice, he just stopped by saying, “It’s been a long time.”

Mr. Ishibashi is now working for a company named Best. The head office is located in Mie prefecture and their business is in spiritual and ethical education. He was emitting a missionary like vibration.

Originally he got a Phd. in science from national university, but this scientist turned his life path into spirituality after meeting me.

In the picture, Mr. Ishibashi is on my left and Ken is on my right.

After Mr. Ishibashi left, Rasmus who is the director of my Lichtenstein lab arrived here all the way from Europe. Today seems like the day of water crystal photographers. I feel it is very auspicious and our business has bright future.
We must have a party tonight!!

Saturday, June 11 Today is a day of prayer

Saturday, June 11 Today is a day of prayer
It has passed 3 months since March 11. Today on the 11th, we will offer our sincere prayer putting our hearts together with all of you around the world.
Many people must have their day off on Saturday, so we may be able to take time at noon to have deep reflection contemplating on why this tragedy happened to humankind. Then, we can pray for the peace of victim’s soul in heaven.

We may be able to realize that everything happened because of our fear based consciousness. Once we have this awareness, we can promise to ourselves to make a big step forward to the true peace again.
Yes, having courage is important. Courage means will to speak up. Even if you know something, if you don’t take any action, you are same as a coward.
Then, you may ask how can we do it. Wonderful weapon is already given to us good people. This weapon is called internet shooting. They are afraid of internet system.

Therefore, if they find a site which contains unfavorable opinion to them, they use their subordinates to attack the site fiercely. The way they do it is not gentlemanlike at all. Most good people do not like this kind of unfairness.
Now, it is the time for us to put our hearts together. When you find someone being attacked unfairly, you can chose to protect him or her by giving supporting shooting.
I would like you all to have this intention during your prayer today.

All the victims of the tragedy, we are sorry and please forgive us.
We will stand up not to repeat the same mistake again ever.
We will keep speaking up until angelic intention will win over evil intention.
Thank you very much. We love you.

Love & Gratitude,
Masaru Emoto

Strong Odor of Devastated Area Concerns Me

About two weeks ago, we visited Soma port which was struck by tsunami. The big warehouse of Nippon Express Company was totally destroyed, and rice and other food products were swept away. The area was filled with offensive odor which came from spoiled food.

According to the TV news report I watched this morning this unusual odor became even stronger in various places among afflicted areas. After hearing this news I became concerned about another issue which is yet to arise.
Another disastrous issue…..I fear that some kind of infectious disease such as cholera might spread like the one happened after Haiti earthquake.

Of course the situation between Haiti and Japan might not be really comparable since the medical standard differs significantly. However, as you all can see, we don’t know how to clean up all the mountains of rubbles even 3 months have passed after the disaster. Mountains of rubbles equal mountains of garbage. It is easy to imagine that it might cause some kind of deadly bacteria to occur to harm people in the area.
However, I also have good news here. The MRET Angel water we are delivering as charity item has amazing effects to tackle with various infectious diseases since it has anti bacterial and anti viral capacity. The person who represents the inventor told us that they have witnessed the effectiveness of the water through past experiences. We can try our best to take precautions before an outbreak of deadly disease by delivering MRET Angel charity water to the people in affected area. We would appreciate your continuous heartfelt support.

MRET Angel Water being delivered so smoothly

On May, 27, we delivered MRET Angel Water to Ms. Saito’s residence located in Sukagawa city, Fukushima prefecture, to store the water in her storage space. Water has been distributed to the people who live in local area.

She contacted us today to let us know that 7200 bottles of water are almost gone in a matter of only 10 days or so. Instead of her delivering water to each house hold, people visited her place one after another to pick it up by themselves. Word of mouth spreads so quickly, and more and more people are visiting her place now. That’s how almost all the water has been distributed.

Of course, there is more water at Thai embassy, so we will make an arrangement to have it sent to her place soon.

The way how people get information about water through word of mouth reminds me of my experience from 12 years ago. Back then, Messages from Water was being noticed by people the same way, and I believe this is the ideal way.
If you would like to have Charity MRET Angel Water, please contact us. Please note that only Fukushima residents are eligible to receive charity water.