Road Back © Nature Regaining the Paradise Loat MaaanobuEukuoka a Mee aien aoe[D1 by Masanabs Fukvoka ‘Famlted by Free P. Metead ul by Janes Pus icarons, Ine, Tehgoand New York Contents Preface o English Eton, 13 Preface Japanese Eatin, VT Introgetion; Man Doss’ Live by Bread Alone, 21 Te Ameren and of Ply, 2 Why has California Turned to Desa? 31 ‘The Spans Browpt Bad Geass, 35 ‘The Raa Fal fom Blow, 38 Det Fare Agriculture Ron Amok, 2 Ameria Pine Tees Are Dag Too, 4 ‘Amer Is Dring Uo. 5 The Machine Cultue Is Doomed, 56“oe Naat Foods Boo, etapa Cas of Fn 18 Natura Die Takes Hol in he US, 63 Churches nd Go, 19 se Coats A Green Peace 123 ‘Touring Europe in Geta and Monpe, 77 ‘A Messuge for Peace, 133 “The Sound of My Footsteps 7 ee The ela of Clothing, #2 3 Food aad the Eeoystem, 16 ‘The Roos of long 2 The Culture of Mest and Wine, 86 “The Japanese Diet Takes a Tun forthe Worse, 145 “ipa Di and Caching Are Disappearing, 1 Ditand Thoupt I8t Natural Farting Takes Root in Tay, 91 “The Seed War I On, 156 Re Sed aes Weapr, 1 The OX Man andthe Mil, 103, Beyond Selene, 165 The Nes Frm 108 The Ox Man an he Wiad 10 * Revnng Aes Sans, 16 Probe wth Duwi Theory of Evoition, 18 European Chilzaton at «Stands 113, Scamite Abus Tie Author, 12Pine Bight: A Cabe Study of Nature under AtacE, Pie Ro: Pot of Beserieaton 176 "Toe Natural Eminent Mast Be Prove 172 ‘Arid Catan fe Masia 9 ‘Keoping Out the Mey, 183 i om Aus, 88 “ei the Maly Oa of pe. 38 sagan A County Without Frat es, 90 “Eat Faring: A Fesnal Testimony, 201 “The Principles and Practice af Natural Farming, 203 ‘i Paes of Sani Farm, 37 iowa ard ee 29. Free one 3 Me ed of Ma Fumi. 17 What is Nature? 225 ature Unbrowale 225 Crenog Mountains andVallys Gets You Nowhere, 227 ‘Tetanoee of Chien, 28 ‘Wag the Ne Body, 233 The Natu Body, 238 Some Are Returning Natur, 238 {Why Doesnt Natural Farming Catch On in pan, 242 ChongingAttide Toward Nate, 2 ‘os he Saf he Ts Pi, 29 “The World ofthe Busan, 252 Nature Farming nd be Bushas Way of Lie 252 “Taig the Great oie 30 Agrcutre for Tomoeron, 258 Natura Farming Ofer a New Fata, 258 Prove Area Deere Loe 200 ‘&_ Nar Go apd Mian, 271 “The Wandeiag God, 273 ‘Dp Not Name the Nameless Go 23 Dacunang Tan Gor Ory Thee-Qures ft Ways 23 thers Only One God 277 (Gols AU Alone, 252 God and Nature Are One, 286 ‘Go, Nature, an Man a One, 27 af sbout tare Dances Ove from Nate, 286Gh, Go tnd Nate, > Natare Creates Go, 202 God Knows Neither Space Nor Time, 306 ‘A Farmers OM, 212 ‘© Seeing 2 Real Groen Revlton, S15 ‘We Mast Stop the Advance ofthe Deserts, 317 Everything Begs by Sowing Sot, 23 Can Natl Farag Sp the Desert, 25 ‘Oraaie Faring and Ezoogy Ave SitDefeing, 530 Forty Days in Afric, 383 Aeccan Asia Seen Yes Late, 4 The Outdoor Food Marke 37 Natura Home Gardens, 381 ‘wat Ti “Lawn Clr 356 Maing te Coange oa Organi to Naru aening, 362 ‘Three Don Ques, 17 Resuming the Desert the Zen Center, 375Preface to English Edition fur because thre maybe some osraiay ato presely ‘what I mean by tly woul keto hein by elahing the tion of "returning o mata” hat have in mind. To m6, this epeeents th effort to reunify God mature, and man tiie ave een spit spare by mankind informa, man ‘Snot be sacesl in bi ater to eu Co nate unless be knows what re nrure and God ae ‘Some people say that ature ravaged by man sill ature, thatthe wasted desert lands lei the wake of human i= “erthrough sich fils and mountsine and however Tong he riuy Iie im sched glen rom which sues a mountain brook man ca only gze upon nature's outer sel: he wil ever bave assess oi ue inner eat nd soul rare This sno someting tht scientists can find by ds ‘Sutng nature. Inde eens are incapable even of Know {ng tha they ae inno sion to understand the soul of & ower nthe meadow. Tethe bee ht they ae exploring the rt oF Hf, gone iss extract and synthesize he gees present inthe cell of living things. But nature's soul doesnot he hidden within DNA. Nore this where Go resides. Reveal, phyissts cla that the mena atitude embod ty ihe Essen conc! of nothingnen (Mopper looe 10 ‘solution within te vel ofthe quantum theory. and Pve ad tsa hat astronauts floating in space ae able osese God's presence while ins weightless sate. But God and atures beyond the grasp ofthe human itllect No mater‘he exitence of buna intligene and cals eveything “Ae far from being able o observe the eal sate of rare and feaup the ewance of God, men only moves futher a t= "her away fom both nature abd God “The fragmented and dusve development of knowledge which expe outward without aim or dresion has Drovght Fhumaa thoughe to te extremes of confsion, eels splt- ting thre God nature, aad aa orginally one naive tnd lenving only legacy of iacoberent eos. Science has fone on wk rampage and the global dstuption tis has sed is nly ao coin Cea. Quite ak, there no Tonge seme any hope that an wl succes! fo etraing to nature and reuniting with God. Teo received «revelation af God one momen ity years ago; was so taken aback by te vision saw that failed to ‘SGvance ang the ro {should have lasted, 1 urea my ‘ook on Gand ted to aloe quel the pth of solitary farmer In time, I came to cll he rad I had pase over “the eal Bak to nature” and, growing aroun, professed to practice aatrlfaring ‘Arto tein fo practice arora arming at ave rely doe iso haphusrdly conceive of a frm cost to tbe lage of nutre and grow crops im acordanc wih hat form, OF cous wile If that the purpose ofthis should lua be the revival of mature and the manestation an once eapresion of Me God tat es ken exp within nature, tere was isle hope that I, having once igoved the ‘sl of God sould fad a proper 3) Even so Tam grateful hat hen spring eves a my free spied farm, fra space of several days the cher, ptm, ch, ang pest wes my onc she ah vege {abr erowing beneath them, all beak out nt boom, Inning withthe ese of the Flags. As lock out upon my frat nw it aly a sight to behold. The ower of ttre bloom of ther ow accord and water without ear ot ‘Looking atthe plum blossoms asain te moroing Hebe ‘andthe whines and Boones ofthe dato lapanese ta ‘sh dower, and noting the beauty of the recent shower of faling pts, visitors to my orchard eal his un Eden, 8 paradise on Earth. Buta soon a they Anish liking te Shutters on weir cameras, tbey Mur) ex Rome To the 1S tnd ees, Even thous they eal his place beau people foday no longer have the time or ease of mind to nee ‘ensces in sch seasiblity. Rather than indulging ie inthe ra, unrefined eau of mace, they retura home With ‘el oe ofexores fim ana are content 0 ny te mat ral beauty eaprared in thir photographs. They don’ all, ‘pon ther innate sense of en, ning instead a eeuter leation inate a an objet for seexpresson. Nature Ferains only asa means fo cleansing ignble man People rng hone Bowers Unpy he a ey 9g with each other inthe art of ower arrangement, Caught up {shes withthe image of himself represented therein, aed man today i longer able to ace the ower (God) i the fel. brace the willy and falsely Blooming owes of vast iva ‘ons, no longer understands what means o return to ature, Whee i the Key that wll pen up the road back to sharpening his judgment and deepening his ability to reson, herb ale to exploit natural resoures, advance human cue ture, and being happnesto himself. But neligance and reason were nothing more than perverse pranks. The gees And ofthe understanding inherent to man (tanscendentally Drcsived knowledge thatthe basis of good sense) are he Fruan intl an what we cll aso. Reason and understanding are muualy antagonist, Teybut susceeds only in closing Ht down because naman know ge is infact nothing more tan a cumulation of judgment bythe human inlet. At st, easoa appeared capable of becoming the reas neesary for conversiog with God, But sted it red cut to be a dangerous weapon ha steps ‘han of Wisdom and bros Go “The lwer perceived innocent i self vine nacre, but ten examined with the intl, hiss transformed into the old ower of reason, the her of which nature shuts out ‘What I want ost that God did ot rete home, earth an the cosmos. Rather, nbn the Earth was Bon and the meadow Homers Biomed, the buterfies teed about, tnd the bids sang, Gos eam of his own choosing to dell ther Tnsead of praying to God asa mighty power that eens this wonders hit angel inhabiting the els. That was the shortest road back tomate and at nce the Great Way back to the side of Go. ‘Look ow besa, the Rowers oF te earn? “isis the land here ve te gods: A perfect, aus, maurl paradise [Now in the deep slumber of pring ia my Een, ere thee noting that mast be doe: [No-fiort is require, not even courage But no one even bother o lok back Into te mists? Apri 1986 Preface to Japanese Edition ttre andan Soch an smbious veut s beyond the Powers of slon-ited farmer. Ye, well avare as Tum of {his theresa reuon vy ave chosen to wet this juvenile ‘ok. One ay while il young man, sa rade the raat of Go T have never vealed his before. Why do fete sit out those words which for almost ily yess have kept hide in the depts of my heart? Thor is mre to my reluetance than nee hesitation, No, [have ordinary sought a all costs to isincapubleof speaking about God, or of understanding belong in God Yet now I deliertly break ths personal {boo a, with nen semarse dare fo sty "Godan avait Sivine jademen "Orcs ha Sy in my far ff youth whan es CG fom that day forty Tabould hae followed His vine tl should have walked the peope road for man that Td been pointed out 0 me, Buta the time, Iwas ust Stupid. eowd-for nothing youth hopes eoropte bythe indesrbabyglsious sah of God, I shiked my dy. ‘Whether twas cowardice oraeogance I donot know, but taking advantage ofthe fact that Go ive man ao isu tions usd my back upon Hin aed began 0 walk the Pro a I ws then, | though iat I didnot ned to know anything. tht | needed nothing at al, There was absotely hothing that tha to acquit theough efor. Chad ot the slightest quaims in declaring opel that ime an space havena Is people ackng their brains and liboring sy at the production of god inorder to secure a tof Sue and tie, L thought, "Let thove who wish to advance do 0 As for me ave nowhere to search fr. that rains isso tum hack and sowiy make my way home. No, even the oad back botne exits no more. All ould do i ve abd ny this da. Tene very wel that at bear as a fol. Wel foo! lve ata fool wll, AUT ha to do to protec hs oly af Inne, On the petet that suited me better to abor soiled With he mf he corupt world than To cruise trough ‘he pro! and lol Reavens, Fenterod of my owe choosing {life of exeapism. | tured my hack on both God and mysel Tews ol iting the that Iwas forsaken once agin by God and teted by soe) asa Lone tay Did. Th, in pte ‘tthe fact hat | hd forsen al from the sa ‘What happened, very simpy, Was that, ten aback by the vison of un eal pra lore me, [trae around abd bot from realy Although I had nti! that our word tras garden of Eden I turned my back op this Knowledge ‘nd, whoa aly elzing chow stead the road af 2 Chetate farmer tiling a lst paradise ‘As reflst hack on tno, alze ha atthe time now both the reality of and the esence of deat. Which isto that I knew that ose naeds athe to labor inorder tole nr to fear death, This eared aa all my wrres dnd it became my sntetion to lve a solitary lie of serenity in accordance with the principle tht its enough tobe alive “Thee ino denying that | pent those days inthe retest of ‘is, enjoying each day with uci’ deli. Buta me went by, beng basically dulled as Tam 1 lor all hat ad gine and tumbid back to eat, becom ing oe aga a wretched fool. When Ts that I had est, my orginal nivel and inspiron, I ven begged 1 be read ted o God's pretense. Bu this was no longer allowed of “To others, I may appear as someone who as ved serenely » ‘ith natre and bas caved out his own path wile remaining edit tothe way of natural farming. In my heart 1 too ‘secretly desired thu the rth as been jst he reverse Tnnatent with my own dityimbecity, I yesmned alter God T'was unable o forget no mater bow hace. Each ds, T Grog with people and showed myself of eo ie word {ove people bit was anable to love them enouah. Even 1s lamented the wold, Was ata Toss as to what todo. T Tne an ide fe Those were days of coastant anguish and icon aig wich Bad mre and eons “Toned abot bythe contradictions within and without, 1 was a dsgreable presence even o those iam fay. Come fo think oft, over the course ofthese decides, Ihave not lve even a singe day at peace. Although hiss ting pun- "shmet for one eho Turns his baek on Ci and eta msl today tam tormented by hearending se “The reason ny hare here everthing about my pas i ‘hat {dary wish te atone for my eros and make the fullest posuble use ofthe few eemalning years ave let on this Enh, A the same ime Tanto fo search For 310 prev te lg of natral farming tat has managed sme how to remain burning to this dy. This because I ave come to sense the danger tat maura faring may vanish ‘Se jueone trance faring echague Tish to make clea that natal farming i ted tomy on humble expeienes isnot something that an Indidual can establish or tat canbe perfected by man. L ‘sented the wil of God, bu ths ask was beyond my powers "Natural farming s nothing es than a tue way of human he tht revealed ise suddenly to me wen earaed tat stare aay a total pcfestini, that ts the image of ‘God who faihflly practices absolute ut, and that man ‘cannot srvive awa fom nature's embrace. Of eoutse the ctl methods end genecal principles were revealed to m= ‘orig ha bri stant ‘Naural farming must alvays be started and developedaccording Gots instruction. All man ever had to do was {o ste hombly to the word of God ard lend jst Tite it ‘fa hand, Unfortunately 1 was ff ine trance and, caught Unaware aed oar the prope spose [eas not able to become athe servant of God Natural faring uvaye appa fo be incomplete, But it ‘stall ines perfect and compete atthe place of God. “Asse svar tha, powerless as Land others aro do any ‘ater than mee imate, may have neglected the work of ‘cealshing nator farming Bese 1 did ot ell upon ‘thes and mde no efor fo create followers and stents However never oe lost confidence inthe at chat natura farming was possible ‘God inal ages apps a8 a discontinuous continuum. ‘Nata ring oo, sine anit. may have arisen nd ‘nish, and sen aia to Dour, ‘Natur farming is oe ofthe pital is that mus Be ep burning thoughout the ght Ia this ae in which we Tvs iets possible that i hs ight des ot, ay never barn ‘Naural farming is more than jst away of farming. 1s wienou queton the one and only path tht remains for Fumanty to conte to survive on this earth It must not be le to come fo ane. ‘Whatever beeomes ofthis ol farmers of no concen. Even the ging lep, we mst ay out the route by which our children and grandchildren ca contin oT on this beau planet of ous ‘God ha left man ois own devices; be his abandoned son mn dos a ae io ne i i ime 1986 Introduction: Man Doesn't Live by Bread Alone ‘ee are some eset from amines I had at Shunji sha, publisher of the Japanese eon ofthis book (Qs. For the lst twenty or hiny years, we've been Hering ow fapd progres in sence oflers hope forthe acre. But more rvely, withthe famine and starvation we've witesed Inport the word and tering ear of lear War, com ‘om has grown thatthe days of humanity are numbered ‘What do you make of all this, Mr Fukuoka’ [Az Well me have to ask ounces what itis tbat man ves ‘by. Chris sid that an down eby bead ane. think thacthowe words old the ky to wheter mankind has Fatore or no Q: sit being too optimistic wo believe that man can survive ‘Tenly he's abl to muintsin sources of ood and energy? Man has no idea what ithe lies by, and he's wot 29 idea wha to eat and wha to depend 0 le Do you meant sy that simply knowing sintieally ow ma ies tt enough? Az oes he even know this eet? hink is to say thn sence daca have the Yaguest idea what eel food bs Scene san tell us hy, bow, and ia what Way manbing alive, and ts sees for exptining o even desing the tru sours, meaning and gal of ie ‘Are ou youseifcoadet that You ae caret in your coun way of ving a our yen for fe? Do you kno for Q:* OF course, I don't Have dha al Fase of ie have been revealed to us, bt n't Ir ost that no other animal Knows as mich olive surely as nan does? Az Following that same ine of reasoning he fxs, the badges, and he binds haven the unten ea what 0 est ‘or grow: to man, thera vey fragile, marginal existence Wel actualy i just the oxher way around is? These most dependable may of Wie Qs In what seme? Q: see, But a tao imct or worm, Even a ie lied ‘vith uncertainty and anguish s okay. Why, nan derives 8 ‘rain pide rom hs pasion for aman wy Hi And then theres the view tha man jumps a the chance 0 eneaBe ia the suugae to polo life inthe hope of assring the eral prosperity of humanity, something which oter forms of eae incapable of Az People who thik that way are convinced tht the ate free, theeday ie of the may i meaningless that even ‘hough 4 human ie may erate Between joy and serrom, ‘his Ras more sgiiance. Bul tht’ the sae a ayn ht parade, 10 begin with, one ant metsire the mportance tf ein ete ots eng Q:_ But hat very cussion of the length of if is most i orto. Ever since he emerged onthe face of the earch, man Iifeand eteraal youth Isnt it conceivable hat this dese stimuli the cerebrum and became the diving fence behind the advance ofthe human race? [At This tong and pathetic ese for eterna ie and youth vas longing for aged. Before ering deth and paying For if man should have determined why ts hat he came to fear death in he ist place. ‘The spat dos ot fear death, But people they te on ty afer dn, at avayscononted Wh the specie ot eath: Why, and starting when, does human life sie Int an teins in dead of death 'At it, human ife neither sue fom nor was constiined by death Death's ascally unrelated to if. The rice plant scent es ech en, bt the grin oF ce goo Ng Lites bands down fom one generation tothe pxt, and constantly Bora anew. Today’ ie ends today. The me of today dies today. Lam not the same tomorrow as toy. “Tosay’s fe should be put int oder today. To be alive sarasota to the Fest Tat fhe ony nay to live Q:_Are you refering to something lke 3 “discontinuous [As suppose ha i one way of puting it Lifes both a ‘icominvous conn anda continuous isontinaum ‘One mos abandon ons each day- Eventhough every day {sew beplaniog and followed bya omorr, hee isM (Goes a make fe empy sd meen AAs On the contrary, Dont ou tak Ht more barren an txistenoe to repre each day one's death on the morrow and the with ngeing tachment, praying and oping day fer fay tha mete wt be omoero® (Q:* But can't oe subse to the view that thee ae to sides to this word of oure—a bright and dark i —and that some le a ight, carte exsenoe on the surface wile bers nk oan nha deeper apes? [As What you're talking bout is psople being entranced by ‘ofa ods. Unable 1a slest one way othe ots, they ‘angle in beeen, lending indeterminate ves. People fail ‘Chris's rebuke that es aot wth brad hat weve, Those ‘unable to dedicate theses to the peoposion that" can lve without bed thi dy” are unable to ive even with bred. Withowt bret, they immediatly bepin Yo steam and {Qo you mean to sy tha his very days aie day on sich we must be prepared fo abundoa outseies? ihndle of eposicselattachment. I would be Bete fo take sh aftemoon nap Q: ution takes nap there's no chance for spiritual Etays domo the wrong pth. To tll the uth, the more Ten ro what you ay the est | enderstand A Ist it eoouph 0 realize that the more you think the Qs What do you meant? Az Ifyou sop thinking, youl understand Q;- Aa! thin 1 se what you'r saying 20 ‘A: You shuld know that hee i wool of dierence termen thinking you understand and actually undersaning. We, for examples posible shat only thos starving ‘hdres in nouns Atican countries can aprecate the “iiclty eating a pies of bread. Tuma that hove of vs in modern societies overflowing with goods have frgoten the orgie ofthe food eet, Perhaps cne nay to resohe this would be to take lok basa the primitive ass and [Ar ‘That may appar o be a ssemifially proper approach, but i cannot show us what tis hata ves by. Nature isin constant Aus, The past gone and over a soch an ppraach des not apply tothe unknown Tre, (What then should we ue to guide us? ‘eu those to the south—aake up meateatng fo keep pice with heir eng standard of ng, thi wl surly Rep reiptate a global food shortage Ts thus fue to ty and predict whether a food shortage ll aise. Everything depends cn what people ea, what their food stapes re So thee no sed 0 ory 9 eh DOE ‘future. The problem in which direction does man intend to go? Willhe folow his cexvngs and eat whatever Tod he pening on one's viewpoint, ths data could be iterpeted in It about anyway. Statice are published and sed to pn forthe fare tthe most important actor of al the tude of peope, Everything turns on this. The true food {ss bein when people ose ight a the spi of Chis’ ‘words: "Man does not et by bead alone,” Uns he tre -ncuning ofthese word i renewed in people's minds tdey, ‘there il be no avoiding te ell of hum FaneTouring Europe in Geta and Monpe | 191985, went to Europe. | ha ben invited to lecture at ‘vert Summer camps. A Greek alow bythe name of Panos | anda young taian vom aed Miam, Both of whom fad stayed and worked on my far, fered to serve a8 my ies, to Ldeidd to go. Atogether I spent ity days over there. With these eno taking cae of everything For me, Twas estan work pnts) and geta apanese clogs). traveled by ear through ve or sx countries enjoying the enuf scenery and ving major fcms working to adopt ‘anew way of farming For the mot pat spake to groupe | af people ho had sathered to ear me-On Few oxzsins, __sihtseeing throughout my tip, and on Tong outings even Sopp fom ine Uo tine at soni cafes for tea Wherever - ent, Westerners and Japanese I knew dey or indirect _ experienes had Bearded he plane to Europe dese com fortably When we tushod deva bil at Anchorage fr = fuel sop, 1 got off to stretch my lps, As Twas making my Way — through the shopping area at te arpot there. 2 young ‘Wester gr working atone of the souvenir ands suddenlyyee out in Japanese, “Welcome, Hanasaka san!" I wasnt the oly one taken abick. AI hove ner ae sed in sorpree, thea we all broke ob nophng. Ths gave mea chance vo speak with the people areund me, Normally, people get onto 1 plane ating uptight asf they were enemiceBut when Tm !ound, ths Bel loosen things up. ‘Atthe de Gaulle Aleport, vas wandering around ting to [pare came up t0 me. "Wonderful he exclaimed at the Small man in strange clothing he' Fund, and he promptly {ook me tothe gate himself 1 us flloweé mexkly along. ‘coming tome sort ofa toy. Prope teated eal te more indy arrest, a this enabled we to approach them and feel my sy through stato ‘AST walked, my get rang out on the cobblestones. Thats when I dsovered jus hw god a sound Europe's cobblestone "rats give ofl Japan's rude are paved with apa This Jade me eit on wht type of oud is ood for walking. ‘allages, are sl paved with stone sin he pas Tigo ene ofthe song attachment of West Europeans to sone pavement when I etched them rpirng the roads ‘Tey aren't out there working on ssp oad with heavy machinery. Workers wearing ether leggings dig up and re lice te pavement ones one t time. aid down sae faly long ao, town rads twist ad wind and are almost Impassble by car. These are et unchanged bese people dont wish to destroy the stone pavement. AS a eu straight road rn trough the tons “The top surface of «povng stone i 6 inches square, and te stone runs abouts foo deep. Caiage ks and the sound of horses hooves ar sad to be eared into these Because ath stone i ferent, walking ove the rod ees si witha rythm als own. Whater you ike to 9, 48 you wa, you constantly her the Sound of your own footsteps ote to me also thatthe sound ofthe Orient echoes within the ge, Whether this aging ance tit {kotang,Ke-tong), an even ben (clippes toppet) oF Tonaly“piky-pock” depends on the weather and cline [And when on els rated inside as one wal, the ge ell bays give waring wheter you walk quickly slowly hentndely Tseng tothe sound of my gra even put me inthe mood for wring some bad hk ‘Touring through Europe, My costa companion “The sound of rea, Keane’ ketong stent 0 my footie ‘Naot sourney ‘The sound gota make is rly a sound of Eater philo- sophy It steed special to me that nat only was able to read ty own mood in the sound of my get Iwas able so to tell something abou the national characters f poop by ‘hei rection fo the ger. But in any cour. is he ene {ren iho at the fst to woe, They woul tre tently at ime from far up the road and continue watching nl Thad passed Sometimes I even teased them playfully, But adults id not noice. Engle, Austrians and Getmars stating ong selimporantly, with ther heads eld high iba om ‘ous manner were vot slow to take notice of my get But theselfdeprcatina Tas, who citi fo be the moet iced people of rope, notice quickly, Thi is bra of thle Io" ostre, which is apparent even from the ay they wall You ‘hn se tis fom how low they hol heir heads and hee* pial bul. The Dutch who themselves wear clogs or ‘bos, were aio quick to aoe my get Trmentioned this to people, pointing ov that everyone walks diferenty "The English walk with ther heads, the Germans with thei shoulders, and the Frch wih their thst Th isons walk with her es, winging the hips fra looking down as if o avoid being rideled by other TEnvopean" When someone acces, "Freon women so thor Breasts they wal” we all hd» good laugh My own aire ha a Jott do with ny fst becoming are ofthis Later on, wasn I paid loser attenton, I bezan to eel ‘ha could petty much tll where people wee fom by the sway they walked, Haan, is lea ao rom ther bering, ave the most openchearted and easy to talk 1. "But Hine also have te drawbacks 1 atasked thie shoes Once, when Iwas visting farm Inthe ian county fide, someone asked me, "Do the Japanese wer get whan (hey workin the ks Noy" Lroplied. "We ued to weer sandal made of tate ‘or bamboo bark” ‘hy straw sandals? “so ae not to haom the earth.” “In your aunty," 1 eatinued, the sols no goed and the mountsing are bare of tress. The reason Ilys the poowest ‘county in Europe is because the sl has become so hare Top my eyes open a8 Tuayeled from Switzeand to Avsta afore coming totaly and Tl tellyou, he further south you 1 th ever the tees. Tne that very fe types of tees fw inthe moualain inthe northern par of Your sounty. Infact, most of the mowntsne there are completely bare XX mountain without s cover of ress lysis depeted soit dersth: Even when comes fo fm crop, hoe in Italy take the most trouble o roe. The reason Tor al this Tes at your fet Why, yout all wearing the shes ofthe ‘Romaa legions.” For some reson, the Halas, who ar at very age “1 ecplelike 1 wear hard hobs shoes—the hardest shoes ‘in Europe fr that mate, although I had ever sen the footwear warn bythe Roman legions, mapned that it ‘mus ave been something ie this "Because you're ramping the il with hard later shoes lice those wed to conquer Europe, the ground has packed ‘own s0 eh thot the sl is no longer ey abo. The Spans tak creo tour sl They Bbove that if Jos wat ‘ovr the ground wecing hard materia ike ion, youre ask- ing for rouble so they tread light, wearing sean sandals that are sot and do nc hare the ground. That's why the ‘ground in Jagan is sft ad feria. As long the ground ‘ete with care inthis way, ezops will grow natty.” “This made quite an mpresson on them. Te vatiag luaan comme, The fos practic natural leming there hc eager evated my ara, hoping to hes ha hey were doing things ight {found this «be dsconcertng 0 {tok theiative by looking atthe vegetation and seope ftsting at the ciate | meu rt out by roaring or trample "This gas should gron beter. Heh ll that You geting hen the soils probably poor.” When broached the subet of egionaie shoe, everyone raised thei fst and sid, "Vou mean thete shoe are to blare? Shows thow eta you're mearng ‘That loosened things up and the conversation thened up ster that. Once we had ised taking and it came time 10 leave, ves invited over tothe hows ors gt of wine {old them that I dont dik alcohel, But they sited: “Over hare its customary for people to harem dik together ar 8 ‘00d lk. Come on and join us" The hoe looks ra dona from the ote, but when went made wae sp fo find that although 2s was farmhouse, had a Spleeid dining room. They brought ou hr best ld sh ne and tented me royally. The ambience athe end was beat. “Wort you suy wih us for 2 week ors teach UST" they asked ics weyou promise to come to Japan and work forme," snowered with a mie, ‘The Culture of Clothing ‘Wen 1 5 calla “Hanasks-isan” athe port ia Ane hort, rel with sor that na sme What | “looked like But tee, back onthe plane eb Twas ooking ta glossy tour brochure of Europe, I noticd tha the Traditional Bulgarian peasot dress tenal to at of f Sopa ‘Wherever I went in Europe, people reacted very favorably tome and Iwas ofen asked it what Tas weg was : Teputese peasant gab. {eared tha people in Europe ond ‘ago wore cradergureents than they do toy. i ‘On osason embarassing as twas vas mistaken for @ marta arts master or an arse Once in atin station, a people esorlng me laughed abd sad, “That gu looks Ie e npr. Maybe e mio you for he bos of Japanese Syndicate and came to pay his respects” The belboys were ‘courteous ta me even when I wall over the carpets wi Iny get and tacemed to me that the ewardeues were ‘speci ind ‘Thad a reson for going to Europe in hist ‘The Roots of Clothing ‘One thing always fol when work the lds i hat ‘day's fame i Japan bs nothing proper to wear. ARES the ae, Japanese farmers gen wearing Wester clothes made of nplon and other syntetis,but tes re uncom forable and hard t werk in The cthing does not breathe, ‘aking one hot and Stuy ona this soe tote 8 boty it woul sem tobe easy to Work ny hut insted it is tight and tends to give one ti shout. Perhaps his has Somathing to do with state build-up. By contest avy ‘he coton clothing ofthe past was simple and airy. A ber eaincot today keep the fin out, but there sno Way forthe humidity to eicape, sn no tne tall you're Aenchod in eves, Thi not something that can be worm Sie doing neavy work. To el the wth, tm amazed a how farmers can tolerate such discomfort as they Work. “The sede hats and straw raincoats of he past were Fa ore appropri. Raineonts mae of emp palm were thebestof a But today they az just too expensive to buy. Good headgear ean no longs be Found eter. These day, ‘ven barley sta hat are petroleum base produc, the ted practly bake inside, And when ins, you fst ll and heavy. For some reason, the hats wor in Cina are Imoce comfortable thas Japanese work hts, People around the word use many diferent types of headgear. Has such fs thom worn bythe aso the Sie forts may indeed be well made, een when i comes avoiding danger But prefer to wears hat made of barley staw or see, oF @ and tovel knotted au headband in the Japanese fashion nthe winter, the best thing you ean 6 st wrap your sheeks with ste ander the hat. But for this the sytbsic Fiber Randoms that farmers us inthe Wes are of ie se [As for Footwear, the kati (a sn eotyepioe thor), cone ofthe finest inventions ofthe Japuacie, sees the amet ‘el. Lately, these are sven proaly worn by some Ameria Sacpesters. Bul somehow they just do not go together with West clothes. lb, unlike sandal hey cannot eas be Slipped on and oft And when sine, they ve toe plise with boots, it thee ar oo heshy and tnd to Fane the fet eting ot and sty. Sandals mad of bamboo Bark or tra ar sill much beter. “The farmer cay as nt a single good pec of eothing to wesc have ated many people fo come up with eas for‘ter wear ve inquired a8 to the fp of eothes people ‘wor ia the days of Japan's forme lor and what the faemes of medical Japan wore several bundred years ago, snd Tve even request tht talon Uy making dency, a srt ‘of work yest which can be shed quickly when the Wether gts warm, mip and other tradional wea, Then, just afew Yeats age 2 new gaumant called dt was dese. This cone Stora foosestng upper nat sama tote Japanese ‘hoor’ and bagey work pants eso the shire Jepansse fakama 1 was seat a complimentary set This is very neat and thm Japanae sie long that x pod for dons fame ‘nok and cam even be Worn on slightly ere formal eco sions. Mace of navy Be eoton fabri, is extremely com ortable to wen, a0 I have worn it rogulaey ever sae, [donned this outa a pair of ge for my tp 10 Europe These days the fads fashion sem tobe emanate Jing more from Tekjo than fom the salons of Pars Such sees as gone tothe Bets of Japanese fashion sine, ‘so are totiyeavpht pi eating umn! no aie. “Along with their confusion over dt is all oo clea that the lapanese are algo expeencng confusion over cating. T departed for Europe thus aired out of rebellion for the sys ofthe word and in a spit of michevoosnes, but hi turned out to be s great sucess and Won 2000 avr wher ver | went It provided teal or reflection othe eure of lothing. Lan into a fou group ofJepnese wornen all ln fine new Wester oui, een da fo spectaces With attached old chan, bot nobody pa them the est Bit of tention If Japanese women were t goon ips abroad Sessod in Kimones, Im sre they would be most hap ‘When you thik abou it the hao! and fokam, which are sire among the mest notable innovations of the Jap nese, mee unl recently the proper dest for genllemen and people of dsinetion, but they probably ad therein in "he plainer eiothngfemers wer, och athe dnc aad _monpe The farmer work inthe service of God is is an ares strugle with the ste and hoe. Both i theory and in practice, the samurai elding his sword and shooting an row and the farmer swinging his seythe must be ental in spit and attitude Infact, I showed people at the Zen (Center in Calfrnin and farmers al he coret use ‘ofthe sete and hoe. That's whea it oscured to that {he farmers work ete have toe the prope des before ‘God. In this ese, the dl which blend festres of he ‘ria kana, as a clean syle tha races the spit "returned home to Jepr content that, as both convenient ‘work clothing forthe farmer nd proper dress, thi old ‘ell become the gar of peaant froushout the word “The experince helped me to refs on Wat the eure of lthing i, bat baause man i a anal born make, Simple dist and dees would have suited him ne, One bom land one tobe the taveling robe ofa Zen monk even— woul do quite well Because Japan isa county of sresas tr tae, he mcm ned eae ony indigo coven mh Jing fom Tokushima, andthe women, ligt bv dot ‘Won't clothing in two colors eee troughott the year “These ere ae both work clots and proper dress. they were to spread and be adopted 2 standard ate in Japan, {he Japanese people woul probably resin ts hy Tepe es dispstion ‘All the Japanese ever ha to do wa ive in houses of wood earth, and paper, near the dé ad din tea would seam io me thatthe revival of a epunese people hein high {stem y the mond begins with these gia a my fet = fins with sigle wook garment “The lmate ate for mani total, wale innocence. ‘The willing ofthe lpanese 1 wring thei own nesks svt necks i the Right of fly. Iwas able tose thie for _mysl during my European voyage in get an ong : : aRThe Culture of Meat and Wine ‘Farming forthe Kings and Clergy he thing I noticed ring the two months Twas in Europe Stas that wherever {tok s photograph ofthe beau County, cate or chuck as svaibly planed ight {nthe nile ofthe piste The courtesies gorgeous fn the castes and churches right ny, Bu everyting Just so bel atone onds up taking Yoo many photos. "As was wondering wh, expe the great besaty ee swe there are of rte an only alii varity of Frses and evi, acurd to me wen that he reason Iny well be tha hind ha bee farm fr the church in ovals sop ink wine a he euch cling : the blood of Cit. As forthe kings hey Wanted 1 et treat I vealzd that the syst of apricltur peculiar f orope may well have Bogus forthe sake ofthe kings and ‘ley I tha th case, then an oueagecus mistake was ‘Soni. Aprculre to satisfy buman desis had its ‘Al of Europ, then, is ete ranch. Europe may have shovels for digging bu cause i has no eee o iign- tion ponds, the so continues to wash away, depleting the Tana 1 may appear f European farmers ake good care tah lod, ha lan ely Beng raed Tink the Fas tha th sittin hag conisued fortwo or tree hi dro years is responsible forthe impoverishment of thera ommunies. The land bas been euned by a direst form tfagricultre than in America, form of agrcatre that feaan withthe castles and wine, When you rase cate nd Fores you can't llr to have them get injured, terraces ” vere lininsted andthe land smoothed out. The slopes ate een ad bea. Europeans ate proud ofthis, but a ‘hongh the cows and hors may be delighted, te lad self ieeying. When Is thi, 1 began to sese clearly tha extore sie rom agricul. Ther is stbing wrong with having hurehes, bu churches have gone wrong somewhere. In Til, Ta caved tnages of ors y me rouge wich re ined me ofthe iz" suet 50 common fo the roads (oF Fapan. These were actualy cute and T mach prefered ‘hem tothe churhes. Nothing more i essary. The sit ‘of Christ wells up and causes you to rect whenever you ‘ral slong the oad o work inthe eles. The mage ‘Christ doesnot appear at all as you enter church, Chis lives nly within tow sal shld images bythe side of the oad he des not ive within the churches. “Grape were grown because an oferng of wine had to be mae tothe clergymen. This oo started the proces of sil that el washed down fom higher lod. “Ths Europe isa land of mest and wine It is place wher an areltre that bene neither the farmer nor ate hs boon practiced, and thi, belve the funds ‘ental reatonwnedying the impoverishment of td's farnng population, Is this tat bas brought Crisianty tora dead en ‘Once F even remarked, “T strongly doubt that Christ ever ssi ake win ad drink sta fi were sy Blood?” Later learned that in Viena, people were sl aking about iy rash words Apparently some supported what Thad sid fn others insted that vas wrong Twas petal Ue popular among the who wanted to re ctl ‘My lectures in Europe therfore eve aye around the topes of eothng, cate, wine, end Cheseity. T would ‘Tiana ended evar fn De cemeton8 ‘is arms alc withthe farmers, then in the evenings Tago toa poble hall or place of asenty Somewhere aad ‘sve talk, id thi day afer ay, The stangest port about iat was that although I had teouble making msl under Sod Iwas aie to talk about Wester philosophy "Yet in another sense, all ally did during my voyage vas 6 tael around Europe examining the vegetation whet= ee went For example developed a gest interest the ‘sisher and elated erucifers growing wild atthe places L "iste. ta Japan the plant fom whieh the doon was orig lly developed isthe shepherds purse, one af the sven herbs of sping. Is no exaggeration that eating shepherds purse makes people more gentle and peaceful rit sable to Soflen the heat, then perhaps shepherds purse ad is ster Plants can quiet the destruction athe earth thought it posible that this might potas serve at et a ating Doin. This as, of course, wiht tiaking oa my par Im any eas, thoroughly enjoyed ooking atthe many diferent {wees and gases wherever sy tes took me First Leg: Switzerland From de Gaile Aispor in Paris, I ew to Zurich and aeived sta national camp there. The cam Was located on a ling "sch of gren along the shore of Lake Geneva atthe ste fa former church For thee days Fave lectures inthe ‘morning Thad my afternoons free so Ive the local area ‘nd alt went on longer des daring which Twas able o ft Took at much ofthe pool Sis countsie. The trter onthe lake was beatiful Frage cops, wes, and om are grown in alteration onthe ily Beks Bordeing the lake. Tne Held ae ringed by forests. We tok a road that sir the ake, passing though forest and energing ‘onto eat pstore which spread out before us. "The sume wheat, which we Brondsst seeded, produced od ics of 1,10 pounds per quarter-cre. Nexto the ‘thes wae lrg ld of roses where ters and hundreds of Aieren arcs of the Bower were nfl bor. A mail- Dosliteevepace fr placing aren std bythe the ide of the road While we were thee, «young fellow came up the Ail tons the farm on a motorbike, perhaps co place an 1de, Seine me, he pointed proudly to his ike and Iughed, Saying, “Mond, Hon.” Cel, he guessed that Twas, Japanese. Young people must be the same everwhere “This ose farm as the only place during my raves Ahcough Europe where [saw 3 farmer using 2 hoe is his fds As you enter the towns inthe countryside, you see bea cates and vineyards But nowhere is here anyon at work. Everything i very quiet. “The only rit tees I notice were chery trek. These usb ally stood ale and wee, Tinagine, or hom= consumption, Set it id nok appear athe chess were Ben eke. ‘On passing ty, we were invited to pick few ad try them. “The Austrian countryside resembled hat of Swiverland, ‘but in ation 1 whet, ater eros such aoa, road ‘eons and peanuts were also grown on large farms. The the feds were on untrrcal slopes, growth was real Peehaps haf ofthe beans were of normal sz, bu here ‘maining hal were so sal 5 wo be almost worth. Twas ‘len asked why this sho Be, ut twas ery simple: much fore Topsoil ad been wasted vay depleting abd extaus ing the ln of ts eit. Tha’ al there wast i. When Tg into the sland explained the fares were saongon- ‘ince, What amszed me was that they hae! not mois this efor thei, ne) ere overjoyed when {uke totem ot swing lover and bur caver seed mised in with the corn and beat Sed. Taw no sign anywhere in Assen ofan advanced level ‘of farming technology, but while Tear thing rom the county’ apieulue, id learn much from the grasses 1ssromine there, [ound several tvs of lesuminos slants {hat I thoght would be intresting to Us 3s aren manure ‘Crossing the Alps int ay, Tsu ran types of line ‘rowing wi, What amazed me wos how completly his had suppresied other grasses Later, when Taeled to Hole Jan 1 brought wy the fda o using thie lupe in tat and ‘ther sountis with colder lima. “The beauty of Salzburg and Vienna must deftly be sen by wits to Ausra But what interested re the most ‘nherever I nent was the vegetation arin nthe Forests snd mountains Natural Farming Takes Root in Italy ‘Summer Camp at Giannozz0"s "took he ean south fom Vienna to Florence. As we passed From the mountains othe pains, the scenery gradually b= same moaotonous. The oly erps [sav were com an ‘wheat, and the helarelt scattered throughout the entry: Side became more infrequent the fre south we Went. ‘As the surrounding countyside became ncesinly uniform, ‘he buidings changed from stone and wood to concrete. The Ttallans riding with me deplore the Tat thatthe etry va becoming Amine Tas surpesed to fa tha there are no wicket a the ‘ean stations, The stations cet surrounded by fens 20 fone can get on oF of the platform at any pint And even ‘hough the conductor jt comes through ostsonally, there ave no noapaying pasenges. AI the statins are spotless {ean apd quiet. The station employers walk abou Tere, and donot leave one with the impression that hey are ‘working: Not w sound is made. Eve the ais leave the stax tion without a bell or while to announce thei departe, ‘One fozomotive that came in from s rane line a a stall ‘mountain station was almost dental t the bls engines fone sed to sein Matsa near where Ive. Ie appeared to be of German tur-thecenturyvinge. Imagined that theriroad bus ck home woul rly drool over this engine. Frankly, tas impesed by such concen and are for old things and old times. From Florence headed by tain fr the town where GGiannozzo Poss polisher ofthe Tallan estan of The One ‘Sir Revolution, acted. A summer camp Was being held2 here for one week. Although he runs a publishing company, Mr: Giannozzo himself san opand-coming thinker. When 1 srved, I ound the place to bea decrepit, two hundred Jearold sone howe in the mile of a combination oe ‘orchard and vineyard, The surounding hil and peaks were rowel with eypres ee ke those a Van Gogh pa Here I spent x week experiencing camp ifesrrounded by 2 funded you Haan men and women who had gxthred Feet rom al parts of Tal. Inthe course of my say Tele ssi Lto0 was an Tala from the Roman ages and spoke ‘aight fom the bear. This was for me an enjoyable ex- ‘eens in communal ving. ‘Naural, long wih he practical instruction 1 gave ia the production of fut tres and vegetables, I spoke about Ch, Philosophy. and other tops. Glannozzo isa singer wih a beayful tenor voice. Listen ing ta hie reeions of ol ain folk songs the evening ‘amps brought up grand visions of ancient Roman gods 2 play in the wd When | think oft naw fear’ help bt be amazed. 1 spoke and dew my plilosopicalcarteans outdoor on large ‘host ot paper with. brash A young lapancie woman by the name of Souk transite what into Engi, ‘This was tanslted into Kaan by Miriam, who had stayed at say fie in Shikoku, Some ofthe artiants wee from Frane, 0 Giannoszo translates fom Kain nt French ‘We had four languages fying back nd forth, but tone of ‘his ft strange in the feast Inte the amp was constantly rocking with uughier and sity. Why Tea say, but never ‘once Felt handicapped by language. ‘When Iwas ol thatthe eres es, which appear so ten in Van Gogh's punting are used for mourn the Souls af he dead, si, “Tn my eyes they are mening {he dine and rin ofthe Taian moustias” Ty ws inthe midst of drought tthe ime. Jost 61 . a had given Gannozz0 a cotton frst printed with sn iis alter an was expsining thet tis fower. a squall Suddenly arse. Everyone wis overjoyed. "This bled in ‘as been brought by Mr, Fukuoka they st They repented this so often that even Iwas tempted to ble i. Although Gisanczz's place was at orchard, it conned of tie more than extenssely aren srapesines among sich vere Satered two-hindred earl alive tees. Having encountered these Tallans who lie sich fee and chee ful lie, Te both a sense of expectation tht the spit ad practic of natral farming would surely take hot her in Maly and mised with this a sense of envy when {thought ‘ack at how fos and narrow-minded people are in Span ‘One day T said "Italy has few res, Hie to ee vin allan Fores.” I as died that everyone would go, 50 We Formed a caravan af cars and drove thre hour log getty Spins tihland road toa virgin fret at Pratovescho. fly enjoyed the Deut countryside atone te ma. The ‘ety undulating road posed by vineyards and fells oF wheat, Here and there, cows and ocks of sheep were gz ing. Every so often, there would bea singe famouse sanding alone on ridge and shire cou be een plying neay. It as the type of quiet, pastoral wens that one ses in pictures, Nowhere dd even singe billbourd or tlephone poke met the view. As for cfee shops, which sem to teal ‘ver the pce in Japan tase days, me wee on the voud Tor ‘Sveat nous and we stopped at pebaps the Mis or second Place we happened upon i never forget the lala cafe | frank below th sigan appl ethers, Even in Italy whch sid fo be the most Americanized ofthe European countries, as s00n a one govt ofthe ‘his the Beauty and Serenity of the eounye thst has Tong since vanished rom Japan cess excl a i as inthe pst Country roads are not paved anythere. These are bumpy and winding nd make, ff, fora more ineresing od enjoyable dive White thoroughly impresed with the peseriation hereof haly’s past easho for he bse ene bai the stagna~ tion of Europes agriculture suspected histo be depletion ttthe soit, While wandering thus what plants would be best ‘or reviving thes lands that were approaching 2 desert sate, Ts vited fo spenk atthe Agricultural Academy of Flo- fence, When I ett over, [learned thatthe president ofthe ay was tpg fo tte opis plans Twas wen & tour ofthe bolania ards, ete any eae and unusual plants were proving. Later ter pefcing my rena atthe Feetare with lt me be gute frank with you" Tasked whether if was fa more porn! 1 dedicate o's ul ‘Tort to preventing deserfcaon By eabaneng su fetity fnd to bringing Back the plants mative co Tal il out ny views saying tat if re up to me, Fuld do sch td sath The dean of agrclare as overjoyed andi ‘odately offered to wagslate The Nenwal ay of Farming Jno Hala, This booed my selP-concence ‘The dectn of sgrcukute ie #conssquence ofthe im ovement ofthe cath Fr wick the farmees themselves Eeulpble. AC The sme ine is also a tragedy in which iteming bas become embeded in pots ana economies, “This problem she same today in any country tT found partculaly good example one day white neat Venise When Taw contin reports ia tho diferent newspapers—one published ia Auseia andthe other in ly "The Vieneve paper tore tht Hut Ra ct was 50 high-pced bocnse Taian farmers wee limiting production, Bureerly, whea Thad comed over into Kay hd notion hea of pe cherie nd pers pcked and Te tort inthe chants, The farmers there sid that they had buen told 19 ‘dump ti rt ease ces in the eles Were to ow. os ‘The midlemen, those at the cove of the distribution system, turn fo the ensure inthe cites and tell hem that produce is expensive becuse the farmers do grow ough, At the same time, they tl he fms that fut it sling wel in ‘the towns and instruct them to produce 20d ship oly good fu Tes al ey imple. The consumers and farmers ate made to dance to the tne of he nos eleses pu ut bythe merchants who ext solely to buy sal quantities of high ‘rade products cheaply and sll them ders. As a resi, peopl nthe cites eat expensive Ul wie farmers sel i roauce a Tow pices Later, wil | was stil in Europe, 1 heard the news Of how stick caying Ili wie into France was ataced by Frotch fame. Here we hve the raged of femere sired to volace by misinformation, ‘The pie of frm products everywhere funder the control ofthe merenandsrs and the ma Milan Rice Artec the camp near Floteae, I oured the rce-gring Astriet near Mila. Rice sold under the Io Tot lb is famous a natural ie not only inthe lol Milan region, butin other European counties aswell The 30 acr art sas the location of the movie Biter Rise, sting Sophia Toren. The ovaer of te fam is eting on fo yea But sill in good health, He ha «dep intrest a natral faring, and vase constant and inelale Benefactor throughout ‘ny ent sayin Europe, He ofeed a apanete youth who hal Been moved by ‘iter Reto ree the beaut, you actress wo had appeared in the move. We had 2 goo Invph tether when ‘sa tha e were now all off men and wom, He was exited about sending a curent throug the work of Euzopean agcaltre wit the natal ce grown in hit ‘ets, 0 Tien to pay sone atealon fois future eos,%6 Ric inthe region shoot Milan i 9 lage ansplanted as in the pat Tes grown tay by diet sedi in flooded Feds. Bona the fs are constantly kept under a deep cover of wate, suspect that rot rot must be severe and ares quite este Next [visited what may wel be Hays largest farm, con- sing of some 5,00 are of land, of which about T30 aces > kr farmed. My book (The One Sow Revolain) had bees ‘ead ere, and part ofthe land converted fo the extivation ‘summer when ina clover ever all With fly good re fue, Seeing tat sich a wt seh of nd Was be mt ‘ncativted, I sugested that upland re be gown onthe Siaable els. The owner of the far, a el go-geter of ‘oman, immditely asked me o send over a hundred Klos ‘of upland rie seul and even offered to have one of her thee Sone accompany me fo Japan. As she showed me around the farm, sho gave outa sea stream of odes to her sons tnd the farm hands ‘Many Klin farms sem oun abou 2 ares or Soin sie, That cle oc sable, and in acters seme 10 be few sors! large from. For example, Ie asighboring 300 cre far employed three frm bands to gro com and at, but was in desperate financial stats, Late, whea 1 ad cane to tlk with the tye farm hands, they told me, "The station iso bad that we coulda possibly ask for als Rut we hive vegetable garden for our om fais ‘fin corner af the farm where me practice atural faring, tha gives ux something to live fo.” They askod me all ort of eestions righ herein the Bes. ‘ldhugh Kalin agriculture is larly onthe deck, 1 sound eximpies everywhere of pope Wo Naa Deu prac thing natural farming. led by a coe of fares who Want 15 inet new ies ad approshes to farming by individuals ming fora ata det nd By thse wyng to Festore 1 vas invited to a place called Renate. Some folks here snhoan Zen center wate so stp ua Far ad ouphe my advise, Asin Americ, the soil onthe upp slopes ofthe bls was erode and poor, 0 lked about green ‘andre tres and sod elivation Talo vist the farm ofthe Alegtri group, which be- ume widely own forts ight spss omseripon ring the Second World War. One thing I found interesting there ‘was tha uit tes ofthe four season ae planted rally bout the house. The focus of our discussions Was the fot tion ofvegstabls.Falays stopped and spent wo or three tye wherever wen, so ou soverstion sem got gue {echnal and vod, On to Austria From Mila, {then traveled toward Venice, where I spent several day touring the loa area aod geting an den ofthe arte sate of lan arcaltre while staying atthe Moro arm. After that, I went south a it, hen crossed the Alps sgn by nr ariving a Fons in Au ro meter Tly. This was to patspate ina summer emp organized by Michio Kosti of Boston Dutng the em trp, Twas so captivated By the beauty ofthe tp aves that Tas abl utr a word or take my eyes ofthe passing senery ‘ilar mile, [saw vinajads and apple orchards at the btiom ofthese mountain gores Steep rocky erags Scared up otal sides, ut the asians varity of peaks and rock pomoatories was totaly impossible capture on fm. When {had vied the virgin forest at Patooccio Sa the ene of aly, he pack range there had ol me that the authortes were uncertain what todo about Kay’ rocky mountains. at once sugested the us of lapunese reper, but when | got chance to see these towering inesoneo* ‘mountains for mysel, as taken aback by thee Beauty and ‘nas powers todo much, “ens,” I tought, "It won't do t9 merely sia wonder doing nothing won't be easy but hee bs be something tht san be done, One en mit be to take a belcopter up ‘re and scar hese of eens vines and ee ple that grow well on rocks, Once shrubs have Bop take, the aren might he rstord io a atual state afer several hundred year” Thee and oer thoes ran through ey rind enjoyed the beauty ofthe ora. ‘Nocony are ts moni Inking fore cover the county's Hat areas have fever tes and shares han ‘Auaia, This is a indieation of how poor he soli. I view ‘of that the main reson behind the sad state of Taian sviulre leno MoH Of he le woes Lt wowing ons the bottoms af the step ane valleys ere sil young Wes, they wer Being grown a sing stem plants sch as ad ‘ose, Thee had an almost natural form which bad fall "spproval had heard that fate culation a Europe ‘rot gonery mow advanct alone the Matiterrancan ces, ‘but Found that techniques there were not more advanced than in Japan In Tact, gromers hada more easing p- proach, s0if i were sagged thatthe ees Be grown it tral form rather than in the existing frm, they were able {imate the sie a esp, bo memty ae ei cally. ‘Laer my rp han encountered the several hundred ‘enormous app and pear tees at the Nelson Fare i Holland, 1 gave some advice on how thes could be cored fan prey to bad pring 0 1 scemod ly that they could cally Be teouph around to an exelent natural form within | | | “The grape, the number one fut throughout Europe, is row on wie elses a Japan, tthe wine 8 ot ‘eal pruned and Sometimes they ate even trained on one fortwo stems without wing ines tal, When I these Tegan to wonder how they could be approached f & nat fal form Te was toward evening when we descended from th ps and at last entered the ey of Innsbruck, This town, sie of the 1976 Winter Olympics is beaut place surround by ovensrouded mountains. large publish had ben Fetied a the ite of he summer camp or fl tn ays ‘The camp was a Bg sues, without one thous people tending fom all ver the word “Lecturing in Vienna Let me return a it omy iin Vienna, where {aye before going ont ey, eich ocurred ding a {alk give there. The ete had been hasly arranged sod it was thought tha only about tree hundred people mould ‘sow up. But as we wee Begining people continue! To frive anit became clear that nt everson woul be able fo get nso th etre was posiponod for hiry minates and the foaton moved toa lage hal Ie tured oa oe it snemotonally charged met “Ten to twenty minutes after begun taking, one youn Iman ied up. "I eame href ea about ntl ar ing.” he sid: “But all you're talking about is Western pho soph. Tm not here To Tisen to you speak of philosophy.” “This isthe same kind of thing ha youn people tell me in Jena. Thad starced taking about philosophy bau, when [ rcved in Vienna and sa al th eres thee and we looked out tthe audience a sw that he al a the faces of musicians it jus seemed to bea good way to sat of my Tete. Ts attest noone in the stiencs who Took ike2 fame; thy aoe etn me. hy 1p ying Amt nul bt no of pcr cus pein, Tis acy oad gop Tenth satu hero pice mea snd we This wat ‘img rh cary tae fore ryan dy. Ta nye ah poo an aren ISPS aes won un tes foe swt Th msake bg wih Dees Such eta Sea tbe pely for he ine of thang at nt a She man ox df in mt ma “enn sone sad pad ade stv cette ou oe sing, 1 pbuh trated ne, bt sped ne tne oched ino rss yey th ba oyu ih oto atin osu fring and you to? Seng om Jam ot pun spree alan eo et ape [Site irte m tno yo aw ny? Tete ee rth Be jou inta go nto mtr ring o yor ink ‘Sanne ove scr wi yee eg ine wane are ie pope na Stet undead, you wea beat spp ole One inl ay thnk of pating nat mi ut ion smeting ou cn do ogy ent Cocange fe ng pcs ge mee ene ‘Sa tr nt ng Naa ing Sp usw of ole rs etn a eon oe Econ an pr ap ating and Csncneepene comme in hoa fr ie. ‘ito oe ney saa Slane cng tone ply ie ag fang ceing cane, Ula a ns change, nthe ‘arcane the peyote pepe of wor Alea chang i de inking of he pope of Vana ; | 101 ocst cane. then noone will abi ta practice natural ‘aeming. Unies al the probiems ae save not exen one thing can be done. The methods described in The One-Siras ‘evolution can resolve al the agricultural problems bt on fess reforms occur in al areas~Weser piorophy thought And religion even so simple hing a this cannot be done No one wll beable or wiling to practice even sich an easy need af farming this.” ‘This recived @ thunderous ovation, The applause just, woul aie down, There mere eit of "Eaore, Encore” Toosened yp afer that and did gt sround to speaking about natural farming, but oace the feetare was over it mts have tren ten or eesen ook inthe evening-—the abienoe Aida’ bg go home, The doorkespe atthe all ed to bash everyone ot, ling the, “Is time to cow the door. Please go‘ hom" But peoples would ene, We hat ! Second meting of sort cuts inthe lobby. Then, when ‘finally left the Buin, everyone wet over toa Kind of ining hal where we held third sein. We wen on ke this unt past mia, “Gosh my tak realy Went over wel” I house. fe nasa seat feling, But ater i secured tote that tis mas Vr 08, the muse capital of Europe. Poope ere had the habit ‘of encoring at concer and rectal twas even posible that all hat clapping may have been done gry out of polieess. Sil the audience ha taken fo mat | ha sid “The interpreting done there was tery good A Japanese lerpreter trom the embassy in Vienna came ove translate forme. elized there, and slo ltr in Salzburg and Tan ‘rok as wel that a great deal depends on the interpreter The interpreter at Viana had read The OnesSiran Reobion and, daring te lecture, he alvay east exactly what 1 Suid, evenwhea Iwas groping for words, He eftined fom inserting any of his ova thoughts and did an excellent job ‘of relying my mosage to the audience ‘At Innsbruck, am atrative young French woman began1 inverresing for me bt she appeared to have trouble under Sanding the ore dial pois and was oie by a second inepeter The Innsbruck publ Rall, which is whee the tpsung ceremonies forthe Ofrmpies were held andi aso then the site of ternational conference, was equipped 10 andl simultaneous nerpreing a five languages. tna Tom the speaker platform fad device ha les you fo make daving ona sheet of clear pase at your desk and Inve tis meine enlarged and projected on are Sve behind, [ued his to pet what 1 assaying across With my pariclar brand ofertooning usually manage to Irae myself understood whea ‘alk curs to religion and pilosophy by dept far things with these Sketches, ‘The Old Man and the Mill North to Holland From Aus, e followed the Rhine trout West Ge many. hid thowst the river would be len and beatiful $0 you can imagine my surpie when I found the waters ‘ued. This is evidene thatthe mountain si continous Iy being washed away Vincyards ar located only on sot deposits a he fot of mountains and on mountain plates “Tere secmed litle future in these famous vineyard long ‘he ban of the Rhine. A mistake mast surly have Been ‘ade inthe means wed fr proesing he lind Tn the West German lowlands, a region of oling hills pint in wheat and corm coins slost without en, Much ofthe land is frsted~pinariy wood of e pine wih sll Buses and tees. This means thatthe sols not ‘very fet, which explana the abnormal early ripening of ‘wheat ated ‘Upon eosing into Holland, the land becomes completely ‘at. This is almost ll pastureland. Howes ae seated ere and tere throughout the county. I found it ard to be eve ha this nthe welds mont densely pope country ‘Tore it appeared a a spacious sural land. Shlerbets of poplars are moe common here thin woods, but T suppose {his av aft to do withthe ational character, Although wherever you goin Europe uting a neighbor's tnee—even if i blcks the sup~ean lab one court jst shortly before Lasse in Holland, someane bd akan thir Ieighbor to court for not allowing him to et ingle te, nd this laced up into a big dispute cared in the papers Tn Holland, where the sun's ays ace weak, this was ape0 Sal cry for sunlight. This incident undercored the difer- ces tween Eure, where cing single tse can develop into a major controvess, and Japan. The sentiment tt Seok afer and chores smh inthis way tust be what Di this county of tlpe Rowers tht bloom only after recivng te fl ht ofthe sun ‘Whi in Hold, Iwas taken to se @ national park with Ige tes. was amazed that sch forest should remain sting in Holland, but Ison eared why. lege nunbee ortarmerscouages ace carefully preserved st the center of the forest an historical eit The homes ofthe Dutch Tong ago weve amaainaly smal. The boroome, for example, ‘eased arly more thn coupe of yards guar, lee indication tat people back then were of small tbe It ‘eainly sms plausible that the physical proportions ofthe Duc grew when they began msn cows so aking butter so hens, Naural the park had afew winds and also a amber ‘of Dutch-sile woodea bulings. The Dulch were a promt people who cherished sbots and hovses made of wood, ‘My impression, afer eceiing& tour of eet and ort em Hold, was that this couse ha etleorented gr Culture From what! had een, Teonladed that sone moves north from Kay to Austin, West Geran, and Holling, te “arly of ete docs shange somewhat ut evo more Porat, te number of cows grazing icra, Heads of From several daven wo several hundred head become ap- parent Iwas toubled, however by the fx ha the color ofthe counts semed to grow 2 paler aren in areas whee there Were larger number of some. Whe {iter asked ‘one farmer aboot this, he Tod te ha ste numberof ead beng cased teases, dary arms hve Boome dependent fn conenated feds sh as cen and whet, taking opera Yas Bnacily ater “I sspet thatthe basi ease forthe deine i pro= ati depen of he soi” Us ws “That ould well he ance slow ai uening ‘hi over in is mind Smal dairy farms with went o hic head of cate ware ‘more stable; it was the frm ating hundreds of animale that were setng hard times. Amedca too, very few ranches have thowsands of head: the great majority dary on bat fale operations have at mot several dozen head, “These ate dif times for ivestock and diy farming in Europe today. And the larger the farm, the mre dificult the Saation. In northern Holand, the average 100scte cop Farm rotates wheat, oat, potatoe. brand beans, an opecad (Gsed medicinally in Germany), but on farm in two beng faced with the hacsh realty of having to go out of busines. (One highly competent farmer I ale Yo who uses eae ashnry to Nok [00a wit hist lamented tht hoses in which all the member ofthe ful helped out was better. Iwas very elpul leering why fe fet sucha stone intrest in natural farming beard many things in Europe that woud prick the consciences of proponents of moder, large-scale agrcure in Japan, ‘The Netisen Farm ———_____ ‘Woscurted tome sen tha the df banks were o- Peencing in recovering loans made to farts may have ad Something o do wih hie wilingness to lend Thomas Nei sen the equivalent of $400,000 to ty his ant ntl farming. Thomas wasa young Dutchnan who bad syed a ‘ny farm for thes years 9 while back pon rnin Holland, he spent year tavelng aroun the country end "easing people how ose up home vepetabe gardens. TAs works out well and Became quite popu, which hepad ‘convince the bank oToan hi the funds he needed ose ‘up natural farm"had once tld hi thatthe pond in a Japanese garden soul be dag i the Shape of the Japanese charac foe ‘eat (¢). dont eal wth I ard this somewhere ‘mse or stumbled upoo it on my own, but haf how L built my gneden at home. I you dig garden i his shape, ‘then te pond is wider at cei pons Faving some areas ‘eating fe like sands. Wht you have then 1 ate Mowing ownsrean, a pola sea and islands 1tld Thomas "It fone patterns it after the character for beat, then even & ‘ovine can make ¢popd.” Thomas eum to Holand Sd traveled about the cou iasructing poops co ake {pe spa and dig up thei Ins in the shape of ears. In ths way high and low ground scented so yu have mou {ais eves and valleys When water made fo fow from the fet de of he “bear” this immediatly gives a Japanese oad. A garden canbe crested inthis way without airing reverses of gardener. ‘One should hen ster ovr the garden a mine of he seals of many dierent vegeabes: daikon, Chinese cabbage, brook, aro and sort The garden basi il pains hd shores, Water dropwrt shepher sparse, and horbwore Sods that all near the water's edge ke well. Vegetables toch as hardy beans and dion, caro and suach grow in ihe, dir places, while cucumbers take inthe slighty ‘You just tthe sed dase fo hemseives at what eight and in what degre of ground moisture to iow. At ist you laa of sed which mst be mined together and Pesteredthoughout the gden. Once this has been done, {ou wll notice a mix of plants emerging and growing. The Western dea ofa garden so plat grass, eee an tie {Etch of pee, and enoy ths: However, the tpi! pocket sized gardon in Japan contains a bit of everything. I ay be tall and appear the vey pitue of eonfsion, bat hi ery ‘onfsion ie sours of aeatfscnation, In this ma one ‘nay bive a productive garden going within yeurs tine. ‘The reason tis oe of earden has Bosom even more popular abroad than in Japan is becaue ofthe darth of ‘vegetables in Europe and Amerie, The notion of the division ‘of labor has become so entrenched there tat fw people have home gardens. Inead everyone buys and eats produce ‘eansporced ffom far avay. In Ameria, for example, Calor a supplies fut and tomstoes to the ete nation, This the way things are setup. These are not Fresh o tasty, and because they are uniform market products, the variety vet) inte. This tre as wll of vegetables, No wonder then that the woman of the Rouse never had any real interest in ‘rowing vegetables. But the backyard vegetable ganen It something on ees morning and evening. Andere, one can ow a varity of vegetables, [saw several ofthe vegetable gardens crete in Holland ‘under Thora’ tutelage: One of them had bee setup a he home of priest. When vsted hin with Thomas the pris told me about himself: “Up unt afew yeas ago, had been Atv nthe church and even payed the pipe organ. Bu then TTeecame neurotic ad fet a there wae a longer anything tole for Thats when Thomas came by. He taught ie how to stupa vegetable garden. Whi Ivar working up 2 sweat Spadng the det with my wife and prowingvesabl, Ire ‘ued jo fel. From the vegetable | lard what it ‘eins to e lve and ft the jo of being aetive Lae. Tye come to enjoy lie Ia ehureh, to, 'm able to preath now with renewed vigor” "He seemod overjoyed that Thomas and I had come to ee him and treated wt lunch. He even played the pun for 1s although I know nothing about music. We at Ioneh wile Tsing fo music, then afterward he showed ue around bis, ‘shure. It masa ire, conerete, Americans eure, “I don't ear much for this pe of biking mea." he sid. "But the ruses told me to bul! ths way, 20 Udi” He tld ust it down ad sen osause he was sing to play the pipe organ fr us. Thee wee five or scovos Weal sr down atthe canter ofthe church, whieh reminded sme ofa nrge temple, and Tsteno to iy pla) the pipe ors, ‘When he was coup, he cme over and sd, "sell, se what you fet” “At ist I ha thi sing of Fear, 8 if 1 were being men ced ed tinidated. But ater on tthe end, fl sf [as tstening Io lant of God didn Ad i he east tajoyable or entertaining” “He though this funn an tout a eat ough. Not in the last offended by what | had sai, be then ed o tae tout to ate a beach atthe sesso, We ot nto hiscar tnd drove over toa beach eronded with peeple were We sralked around fort whe He had a speci reason for Bringing ws to the shore. Much of Holand i below ea letl so taking pood cae fis ex Shore i vial the counsy’s welling. This is why ic works Sovhard 1 protet ts breakwaters. The pret had wanted Sow us how the entry is doing this He tock us wo a tet station where vegetation i plated and esearch conducted fon diferent vari of plans and asked Tor my opiion "sam whee the Duet goverment had planted and was growing various types of saplings, but what caught my atten tion were th unfair vines and crue growing Wid on thesandy each, "Ie would be interesting to plant these, wouldnt? Esai. Although th scents hee were ob- iowsly workigg hard at ang and transplanting splines the plants uso to fold the sad did ot appeat to me to Be loin ll hat we. The vines and shrubs growing win between looked beater Ie sce 40 me that these Would probably do quite wll, “Thomas now operates & Stee natural farm, The name of he fan Yak” Thi ow "hye, the Japs nese wor for fame, sounds a Dutch He Lies in ahouke Hike a caste, One ti of the farm const of enormous pple and pea ees, anoter third of whew and naked ary fel andthe remsning his planted witha great se rege brought Sack om fu He as eel in growing he when and bry in scones ef ence “ie apie se vandoed esas haps Aen high, br Dsus ty ad en epety [yaned ceed ah they cul eae os etal rm nthowt set aelyTshosed Thomas hot ins Coa be accom a tts yeas “estan sh ss do, Chine aia, vet pot nr doing very cl whi tng futon he ‘aie and combat ee dese. Tas ‘cone bathe don he pew wan oa Slt Tins che em foo sal oe tar. Aso sie met pope Hn dnt ino how {eaten along th lng hs prod. eh oto Sexes ho tsk ial of wh seme eo soul fone Hew en demon how ts peers {ted ior He aon dren aor yee ap fvand so llin leh prospec forte ae ‘of the farm were good, — “pans bling i) alin lin Cron ics thee oun women anh am wee Bak ing fons Thora rear wh» gh at dl ete see ovr baking ed. Naural He mae) {eng ataray oe eat ome fr Hse ‘at oving comer mses ea the ey Be cten ping out 0 Wes Coan. “Thomas ad ao semb he eupant ede ome io, “Somesy ese gino mike mse aad tl fer" he oll east eh eo ge bar on the farm, ashing tesco Toei seb sae for he young prop wo sue fe oa al thing and making he a oe into ming hal fortes dys tet sr forget ot Aalto to handed pai om slow nthe afernoon tered Sone pala, When te snp cae te0 san end, Thomas made a closing adress in which e calla Ine te ther ot European nate. 1s He followed By such {laching Words of patting that even Is moved ota then gave the young peopl assembled nal word of encouragement: "Eve without me, you have Mother Earth Ti Japase, | understand the word hyaksho (i farm 19 mean "se (2) Who Whes BN ) to al tings {the Eacth=the Virgin Mary) If you obey the wil ofthe Vain Mary who ges birth oll things, then even without se, vo wil witout fil Become acer of stra arming in Europe.” ‘The Old Man and the Windmil us ike cvertin i, the rey wind of Holland are ng sealowed the ave of maencton, THs {Gok me ove fo vite wind where rhs sweat mle When I the st, poeta feof th ld sun cig teil 1k somehow a1 Undo the tours oth aly ‘when ne de Re Win ech of wien messed doves of yds in ent ad toning and generating tet eds, the ol ourstoy, thn-walldckstrcare Sezan rocking buck ad forth so a hat even aon Teun, ii er at il pee A po ae ‘rout he sneha ower, nnn te ay from the esa othe ro. The topo he pat ta ached to several enormous wooden gearubeels messing pethape {woo thee yl in dame, These meso he the Glades ofc a eng nd vn the ariel Inthe slr, huge sone mora stacked 9 {he pow turn ting up oe The ile as to contanty ‘Bt ot onto the ond Ror anding to change the vente, ‘om ofthe mil pending on the ieson ofthe wind and ut be mos aja the rotational peed ofthe searahels in ascordace withthe wind Stongth, Fron what I wat tl these adjustments determine the quality ofthe Hour made ‘Operation ofa windmill apparent equ the save arm Strength and mete as the captain of large Sling sp ‘The oldman cold ws ofa youngster once who had ined ‘onto one ofthe long wcll blades sod way killed when he was blown olf bythe wind whl spreading the seth ‘vera aur Bade, From what {as fld, coming @tp-at ler requtes the raining and experience of tree sustesivepeertions ‘This ok man who had Weathered wach advesiy ad 4 OSA face oxerowing with conden tha elle to ind the tle ster ofthe wind" “The Dutch wind wil probably sooa vanish,” he sid ‘There jus ce’ any strong aks like this nell anymoxe ven thre were no etna today cou cer ge je the ihe antes on these pearl. Aad it would e net to ‘possible tin young people wth what it takes fo + inde” “Wort of al” he lamented, “today there are efcent ‘our ails mage of iron so windmile ave no long ded.” He pauses, thn added, “Bt you can't me ral Nour ek pt with 3 windmill” Raising his esd, he dele, th ' Jk of triumph, "People are eos f ignore al thas g00d shout such wonderful windy this Heol! me aso that tue Ho eat be made except in stone mortars because these donot geneate heat, People Chink they have improved the process of iling lout. They believe that hey have sintialy developed means for ecly Producing ood flour. Wear already in an agen which ‘Somputeied mils rod our four a he pare white rode Ut packed in tanks or huge taneport veel for spent Bat that four sno el flour Just what do we thiak we've Accomplished? Has all we've done been to les sight of real four and real people?Dedicated ttl ting ous, he mater of ta wn snl lar, or he a more a st ii. Praying forte sey oth venerable i mile, made 4 dring onthe lars post of him kg dona people ina ee alow He as dlghed When wee be pve Sea ping av i anh hee te “iat bah do wat ve = This made me ref onc gin on what tisha we mst sotto European Civilization at a Standstill ‘The European Culture of Food. wanted to find out what Western cooking ial about, but uring ny tour ofthe European countryside, {found tally ‘incomprehensible. I vas intrested ia eure what faning families ou m the county normally eat. Tey eat—oh, | don't know-—Some kind of soup ot sew made of vegetables and abit of gram foating ia milk and wheat four, Tom, Tooke very unappetiing ARer areal of thi id fel ‘TG realy eaten. People eat o don ext Breakfast they fel like, and the woman ofthe house Sot rsh about ‘sity inthe kitchen before lunch peering the mess do Japanese wives. seems a ial they dos lip int the then just heore menkime and bing out one orto plates ‘or pans I dont know whether i's bana eeything sl serve at home, But people ae so calm and sedate that meal tine suite dll and leaves something to be desire. To apt a delicious ea iso invite dngrace upon one ‘You serve yours one o two diferent dihen,generally something esembtng ste, epi some condiments {op and mix, What you are doing essential, = preparing {he food in your own plate. The, once Jou ae finshed es ing, you wipe the pla clean with bread and wash the dishes in the kitchen. The whole proses ius too dreary. ‘OF course, a st was to make a quick tur ofthe European countryside didn't sample the refined cooking of the ces, so I'm noc really ina postion fo say anything. But 1 id ge an impression ofthe Wester diet a being some sort of artical food prepared based on certain prints ofhuman mutton. Nowhere di come in coast with oss ould expec is bold fresh-water fsb. Why there a0 he ‘Sime ctf tention 1 ature and man ain Japanese ooking annot sy. Pethap hiss only mtu the ‘Wiest man and the Body come fst Food is forthe Ns Wenot the plates and etry that one ets after al "Stl at the frmouses ried, my hos proudly showed sme dianr table pees that had sn add downto therm by their ancestors. These are Kept safely in splay abies, browse nd not uit in srenay Ie, Suc en ae Valuable objets for man, but not eceptcles for meals Here tre, the ood the pate, and man ate all separate, ule In Japan whet they ate one. To bepn with, the sleton of Food is inted, especialy the vegetables. ‘Do you know why everthing slPo vite? Base everyuber, it's “lis fit,” The wile docs ook, 30 tverjone prepares his ood to suit his own ase. Women "ake no interes in cooking on atcount ofthe poor vary of materi, ni because men and wamen car separatly that "Europe and Amrica have too smal a ate of vegctble, andthe quality is poor. There seemed fo be fr to ew roe ‘egeablesinpuriulr. Burdock grows wi inte eld Bat no one elit that this is a food, Ther reno tas. The {ans ae sky ond not Tor nin sonmurptnn, Pee ‘ow devils tongue and “barber” foods tht gr a nd Such as acroshead and lots oot a tanh. There is 20 bamboo, so naturally no one knows of bamboo shots. There are few tasty sven potatoes. The set potatoes tha are Sweet potato ‘Westerner thus consume very few root vegetables, which ‘group are esse to proper phys! growth, Prhape this sone ofthe easons why they die 0 from Orientals. us with the inability of peopl inthe Wet to ee the denth oF (OF course, | myself am quit cares about det, oI really have no righ occas eer aout i. Whit secs tang toa Japanese farmer, though is that Westerner place man fst and foremost with regard to everthing fot tng, and sete. At fis glans, Westerners appear to eat nature vith cre, Keeping itelean and bes But this only supericia.close ook wl show that wh ths atenton ‘may demonstrate are and concer for man hime tte iso gnuine conera or spit of harmony direst a tue Tse the sme with the shape of any’ plat, cup, spoon ‘hat you look at?” Western plats a ages tat you ean rial te ingreiens on one pate, which makes for efit tating, Cops have handle, making them easy ta hod Spoons are convene deste for saying food tothe mouth. In Japan, however, individ dishes are served in a assortment of pltes and bows. One serves smal amount ‘of eolely prepared fod in small plate and savor fone eas. Eve thes of Iapansie excps ifr with the ‘ope of tes. Teacps nave no handles, sone does bot, boos hold the cup 8 one fn, but bane ie both hands, revere savoring the taste before beaning the seal, With apa of chopsticks, one abe to detects ik up singe grain of rie, biog it the mouth nd savor 4 You donot rsh through ihe meal. Tus the ecological damage caused by the excessive ue of diposblechopticks ‘sal foo cer, but whereas chopsticks wil gain become tees if etna to the so, the pateoeam and mineral Fesourees spent onthe fabiaton of meal proeets cannot ls sured. The decal method of savoring lapansae ‘svokingrepescted by apr of bamboo o acura chop- sticks may sl be esaded asthe soul and nen of he caltre of det. The Japanese dit shall surely perish the ‘moment the chopstick s abandoned Tor ork and spoon. “apan’s mes are people who exe by the pace of<= 16 ature 0 ony proper ta they ake oot ere of mtr, ther teator, an tet foul wi reverence, Wes howe ee mana suvving byte congue mie, 3 they hk oly ing hat nate eu ost convene. The den the West rt che envi eat aio forthe Reet of man, ot mate. Te de ropes Between Et and Wes in ood eibng and Sete can al bend ack to i nda alien ‘Why shan the West he eases, caer and vente homes ae al mateo one or bk? We | 49- thatthe ec sesnon ay be ron othe an a ‘Spon afte enerbng eck making stone ray eal Seon bling mater bat personaly hk hat an ven mare compaling reson wa the aon oh stv the ites ofthe so prevaing oer the weak, hich ‘stated peopl to pote tamsntc A diene atte ‘tastes det in an agbenive meal. Houses ase fon or bck ae dark a al even a ifthe loomines of Wet Eropean svi sos om tee po a one ld ces {he Gest Wal of China andthe aio Si inthe Mile East and along he ik Road weal mae ek ree sipped rom thee ares andthe sled. Ths sas tim o nue brought about the deine of man sili ‘Sens arin evidence evcyhere of hw ote was ser feel forthe consti of Europe es. AL Salzbure. for txample, one can se lage re powing ote he xe tet there no ark so athe bse othe es fone oak {Sri car nd snmivaaie ene iss ‘soe re. The rs of stagnation enact ih is Sato fod, clothing, an beter larly come row the desi of etre ur Flowers and Beauty Sil 1 found Europe outwardly a place of great beauy and leas, Woods are common ia the ees ll asthe countsid. Ress blossomed wily inthe Nower gardens on oun) farms, while Hover hone in utan homes Were scked oot with beutiful ive Nowers. Weer T wen it ‘elas if the whole town was ile with Rowers ‘The townsfolk brought rattan chairs out onto the tone aveen and chee leisurely drank tes, Things ere vo uit Sd anui that I wondered where al the working people fad gone It seemed aif neha topped. The setsaton as such tha even I Forgot hat | was hee tanger ina strange land ‘While traveling around the counts in Europe, one thing that caught my attention was the striking Penny te wil Rowers. The ower by the roadside n Switelan and ‘Aunt in particular had sch spend large peal hat they fooked mor like cultivated flowers thn wid owes: spect that thse wece iter the naive sok of beat ones or even the wld variant af arti bed ower, ‘Lovely mesdows setched out ike fs alpine Bowers But once I had gotten aecasamed tothe sight something Sette tobe lacking. had a bunch that his mht be cone ected with the fac that ts fe plans which resembled il rats. In California Tha come tothe conclusion that undesirable asture grates had diven ofthe ative gasses 'nd become on cause forthe desertification ofthe an, But in Europ, perhaps the cultivation of flowers had wiped ‘ut the native grass and rete ina simplified vescatve over, OF course, tis wa tle more than st specaion ‘on my part, but the presence of few wild grawes seat to indicate that something was amis Or ashe na simply accustomed to the sph a sucha rot of gorgeous Wild flees in al bloom,is ‘While on the subject of owes, I zemember all hose vekend vegetable gardens. On the cuss of towns and ‘iis one offenses ene and hundreds of ministre exndens fo more than ew square yards in ie with ete ite hat fn each plo. Although vegetables are alo grown in these tardns it scme us if flowers and spice Bowoms are more flrmmoa.Tinasie that people pss pease Sundays here. ‘The enchanting sah of thee ilpatan hideaway bring nid the fife of te common townspeople. The itensty of ths alecion all Europea have for Rowers and theo ‘eae the lavish on them i something very special in the summers evervne take tothe mountain, fests, ‘sea enjoy nature Bu their way of enzying ne Airs fom that of people inthe Onent. Rather han nature, what they relly seem 1 be enjoying is people na natural Seting. The Japanese arouse in Seleobivion under the cheery Bostoms sping, but Westerers don step ot of fem selves and lend eel with nature. They are ways in ul Posteson ofthe se T pointed out ear tht the nature in the West is eau tnd quiet. That quiet fers somehow fom the vanguty of Sapa does not givers 10 the a, only Japanese ambi fence of wabivabe wonder why. Cou it beta the pick and mystery of Mother Nature that es us fom ur sense ‘tel doesnot exis inthe forests and flower gardens ofthe ‘West rete by epost man? “The Japanese fog havea stong afeion fr Nowers and he even rated iebons, the prastice of flower srangemeny to.an aol which ican be july proud, But even iebane has change. Lately sel wie is used and died ranches are colored with pit, for example. People sem tote cling this Sb art of set-expression these dys, Out to my Way a mang, ‘he tru at of efaa as een diced and replaced by sn anil, Weseried ene of betty "Awhile Back, someone came ovr From one ofthe main school of heb for an interview, [13K him that Twas, Ww ‘icely ssid withthe sate of iw Yay: “Dow ou think that te sou of mature was beter portrayed inthe ‘ays back when one spoke of the tem a (even, ‘ath and man} Even that oo can be seen ast shallow Uundsstanding of natre, What would happen fone were to see nature from direty above behind, 0 below? For ‘xample if ne locks fom above the lave on all plats timrge in asia Wouldnt be intersting to think of ounlrctockise fn, hand in” T spouted of right and Ie throughout the interview, but when he sen me copy of heise wth the wiley on me, ny etal comment had been eited out Al tase dacs isto show the scenery on my nat far ‘What Iam worse about that man ao fonger ses what ‘eauy is, from where it aises, and why something is Beal Decorating a room with lovely Rowers or pinngs not self what beauty fall about Its nt tht there ate no eutful lowers outside, but rather tht we no Tonge ste tle to see the Beaty of nature's Homers. People mt rect fon ths forte ofthese that compels one to arange and decorate fone. Instead of growing tnd enjoying omcrs ‘seated by min, instead of dsplaying flowers int room ot Jearaing how to arrange then, I think that people sould fis reve over the os of beauty in thei ova hers, ‘The flowers in the tahouse™* ae not Bes Beause they $ave been handsomely arranged. I singe ower is Bousht into a Simple teahous re of any adore, then ever wild ‘lower wll immediatly appear to be a gogsous elon (te over", Allo which means that when peopl look at owes, they generally donot ee them. Beauty dos not cme rom the over ise This just che beauty of the chery Nncarme sen from the jihouse window Taio pena os as nas oi a rw oT sown or ia it ue sega ‘Tint thea vd ehh tet‘What we have here isa humanity no longer moved by tous benury smugly saying that a eauly worthy af mak has been eested in elvato and arti Bowers. The sap- ration of European exitoe arses, {Bellver the fact that no matter how eich one devotes the gdene and nndows no matter how cared aay pe gts with fbr Sted beauty, mankind cannot be conten ith tons While observing the dese of European ciation, 1 cout ot hep wondering aboot the fate ofthese emsants of {tadionl Japanese cultre—Rlower aerangerent and the 2 ‘eremony-—thal see o Be Nourishing So mage Toa. (Churches and God. {had ne en fo acid fr. at we ited tach saan een a Cu lan, as mined by cgi he it of hit oes om thew tener he tk ch and 008 fing tt ene of Chon te arin ot pee Se ver “Gad sou hereon ot won Be Nom here's an interesting priest,” I thought. “Where is. vert te tod etn he church wa a eample fey ote szcitar tn ad ogy. gn pry ie ied Adve crying tan fa igh, fot tonks sedan famed tins Tes ha kd rks {nd bait he crc han. Napa adv ope iPaten ine Bess hd on of he sd se ‘ino an ter nba hich re con ie ‘ahi ened seh temple po oT If id Tipit shoved a ieee tral ming and owe sotto tiking, Wess don on hewn fe oer pon [Seip opn woman nd eid we Ara (Sibi a3 we were levine gave us Some sss he had ern in the aude, ‘What dlghed me most was to see «figure of Christ here like tha which I ba! nape ‘Atay rat, wherever ope Tooks—the quiet, stone paved tod, the sculptures on Sweet corners, the Beaty ofthe funtins, the toe castes nthe fees the eoses Hang With the fs ofthe seting sun, te Beauty of the sane hss windows-—European twas are filed with enduring reminders fs history. To the Japanese visitor, the Europeans enjoying a of serenity nthe mst of al this splendor seem very Forzanate nde But when one stands before the sole statue in a square somewhere ofa great king anid «hore or before scl "ure hy Michelangelo or some other ret artis in rot sathedeal one reals before the force and power af thew ‘This no doubt is bens itso pil in evence hee hak sll Europea cute ws created y ma, “The consian stugple between God and man and between the rulers and the rule is brought nt Bold eel in the ‘ures and eases. 1 vas apple to fn that the emblem ofthe caste in Min shows lvge sake te king) salon ing the people. The name of one quiet out town wet sf Mian tterlly mans “Towa ofthe dead" The people here ere killed in an uprising an the memory ofthe tragedy eservodin the name, Tn the courtyard of ane famous cathedral, I fund some words insribed inside acre two yards in ameter. Wheo 1 asked wha this was learned that a county pret who ha called fora religious revolution had ben burned ete a he fos Il deep indignation at the iicy of men of rlsion ‘who ates than mening oer the wretched seo Cre ays opt he dy of God ed ero Ges ‘witha ‘elgion, el fr grt seseof pense in the sques in front ‘of Austrian and Taian churches where Rock of pipstr et et “orth ion 0, ten roy tha tides of penn A Green Peace ‘The Intemational Nature University 1 skipped around Europe, geting ok at bth its bight nd dark ies At Par, the ast sop on my near, Ts ‘what appeared to bes hopeful development “soot Univer ‘fellow there, the son of an inportant American Indian hie was practicing ratoral farming He had asked me to, take look at what he was doin, so I pad fim a vist. Hed taken my advice by seating a mixture of vegetable sens n fis gure at home, and was in fest pacing natal fame ing inthe dea center of Paris, The fst thng that he did was to take me overt the Pals Else ad no idea vy we ere auing thee oT asked him what he wasup to. "You sid thet are no resin Pari” he aid, "So Im taking ou (or place where these are tes ‘When we got there, [ound tat not too fa fom the Palais ‘asa aes thick with tres~almomt ike virgin od. In {he ener ofthis stood »buldng that looked asi it as 4 ‘manson built or nobility. {thought that he worked ete Perhaps 6a wathman, but ured ou that he a the sarcakee “Thi” he toll me, "is one ofthe propose sites {or the Intemational Nature Unisriy. 1 wane you to die ‘ether the Univesity shoud be locate here ono, ‘Now, Lam no fortes. Ihave no spi night into sac thing. But when you ae tld somthing like th you Inve fo give some Lind fa response “In Japan people eften bl shrines ad teples whee the ees are larg and the soils black. They favor places ‘where the ent spo and ich. Use hee Tour o five legeoy tees wih diameters of mor than two yards. The mere act. the these tes are ere cane that thi place goes buck at Teast century oe two. And allbough lind in France gener ally depleted, the sol here in these moods i dark and ck hat we cll “earcolore” in pan, Plus youve pot ‘another twenty sees of what looks like virgin ors inthe bck So Tsay Tha his seems to Be an Heal spot oe Jour schol, yes.” “He was delight, We then went deeper ita the woods where he bad erected ap Indian ep made of a heavy loth Sueched over wooden fame. He si that he somcines Set her, "What's your sgn?” he akot al ofa sadn, “Aquarian” answered, wondering why he wanted know “ouch this pole over ere.” “What wl appen when To?” “That wil become Yur sea” he answered. “The wiver- sy wil be built by twee holy men, This pole contella- tion. The plac that you touch wil be your sea” After Thad Aone this, he contin: "Now you area founder. Whenever SoU vt you nl ay here and ve letures or do whatvet Sou plewe ‘Before 1 Knew it, jas by touching a poe had become & founder ofthe university. This hal al th harm offi [Aterward, be gave me a tur ofthe mansion The room vere of opulent deor, but most impesive ofall was 8 Spacious hall with mirored walls and lrg, polished, round tbl “What use does hippy nivrsity have Forsch hal of "Someday we may iavte the heads of at of fe sis European mations over for 9 summit meting te, We've go torhavet room like his fr such occasions” “Tay i Loks tke a meting ofthe king of hips,” ie ae acc t i ie ns ‘sadn Japanese. The young lady interpreting For ws broke ‘out in peal of aught ‘Some ime after retuenng to Japan, I got eter fom him. learned, wth some surprise, tht the shoo had gotten off toa fine are ‘When Tingied found ou ha this ello was & De [Norman Walla, who had some inset UNESCO, "Surprising thins often happen when least expected” Tsai before we pasted hope for the best without ring mp ‘apecttions." Again the inerpveter lavhed, but she refused {oteanate what {had sd, Michio Kush, who headed the summer samp at Innsbrsk and is a world leader ofthe macrobiotic movement, lo. ‘unfode is ideas fran international univeriy one evening ‘over super. He had siready started puting his plans to "ction, hovng purehasd former Franisan monastery For the school He even showed me pho f the place, Kush sai that cody’ schools ure no Boog, which hy He ing to setup a totaly new typeof univers, The name of he Schoo! wil have the word “natre” in ‘Won't you jon inthe eft he asked “AJapanese farmer does have that kind of tine to spars” replied. “Bu Fl be happy to give whatever aioe ean oo fuming.” ‘With plan of this sort under consideration, i does sem to me ase higher iste of lamin eal of or d's universities may soon emerge around the word ‘The Paris Peace Mareh An antinuclear peace march that had started ou rom Oslo feached Pais he same day that Carved there from Holand ‘The march bean in Ono when four women got together and, idng that they Rad vo de something in the une of peeve,16 simply sturted walking. As thy proveeded south, people in {he aunts trough teh they pase june ther a tear mah, By the time they aeived in Paris the numberof archers had evale oa etinated 800 people, “That evening. the young Japanese woran who was inte pretng for me sa, “Several holy men are ete rom Ind ‘Wout yu cae to speak with then When we went over, several hound marchers had alretdy acived and wete siting along the stots speaking noisy wih eachother, We entered the audtariim, which looked hea lrg, renovated wareboun, and found that jz por formance was underway 1 suppose ts was a way oF aking ‘the marches for their partisation, The interpreter walked righ up to the conductor atthe podium and whispered some- ‘hing in sear. At once the muse stoped and sb beckoned tome, The people in the hall begaa to eap ther hands and Setl"Speseh pect I came tly unprepared, Dt tang heat fom the good-natured Kindnes ofthese people | Hood on the podium snd spoke fora wile on the root of peace snd war Usialy I speak rapidly. ting avay a a urous rate suc wecaic this wan Bens tated, Fo aug provoking Bhnders, by tee inerpreters to English, ‘German, and French, {had te to think and was abl it seems tome, to gel aeons a more serious message. Wha I finished speaking and stepped down fom the podium, 1 was Embraced y a aeihed 08 man whoa Inogoced tome sean tndian holy man Te completly forgotten what I spoke abut, bu that realy doesn’ mater Tt was enough merely that people of dierent counties shoul! meet, embrace, and share with each ‘ter the oy of beng ave. or Defense? Weapons In Europe lth counties share common boundaries Thre Sno way of knowing when enemy tanks il cos he ‘mountain passa the border and eter one's county, That maybe why none ofthese cours have become absurdly et I beara sid somewhere fat "stead offending ‘one's county with weapons, ti ster that exch inva acute a philsopty of ral potting peace,” The notion ‘or protecting the evuntey and of protecting mate rom “estraction very well establishes ia Europe Perhaps ss Why Toda we any campaigns in Europe to plan tees Nobody over there is yi to plant or not 0 ant No one cuts the tees down, so tings ca be et aloe, ‘There are tees almost to bg to get ones seme around speeading thle branches out inthe fel span, sch a te would soen ser femers quarreling, Ine fat tht thse af left aloe to spread branches out t the eats of the fed ls me thatthe European Wy of thinking about and protecting nature dirs fundamentally fon at a opt To the panes, protecting nature dos not msn protecting the wees bu protcung onset With atthe eaten ly ‘over pollen or whatever, the word “pectin has bein 1o pop up everwhere. But the ral meaning ofthis word as tot yet sink io. This word “protction” as arian estise ature hasbeen deisvely destroyed ‘Having Bult highspeed cars and devsloped brakes, people are nom yeling out slogans to ive sal atthe top of hit Jung, Inthe same way, instead of making bakes, would make alot more sense forthe Japanese to walk rather than drive whenever posible, using bees for loger tps, a the Sometime ago, group of ve ors foreign visors my farm insted that Igo along withthe to Hirsh fortebs crits Soteeeeey ae Siren apenas mgkant SE aca ne one a ho ‘set Mer te ee meats Grete tene Sree be easy 9 broad This explains why. the boat on our way ck, the foreigners with me ket syng that Japan i finshed. Two ‘were Dutch gels and one wana young mun from someshere {in Europe, There was also an American irl and furor from New Zealand, ‘When [ask them what they thought ofthe ceremony, they answered, "We were toulydiapponted. I wast at All what we had expected itt0 Be.” “Thouehful Europeans bale that Chis’s word “He tho lives by the sword shall die bythe sor,” are an abso lute, unastsble rut, Bu the Japanese pra the smple- tinged belt tat the more wespons one ecumulsts the moc securely one can protect hime. Wetpons for defense sink erin oneself and others. The mentality behind ele deeose is out-and-out agaesion, Defense and fence my ‘appear unlike, the shield andthe bleed my sem erent things, but thee ate as joined in purpose and fanton a the "ght and left hands. One might a wel ay "Stroe with the right hand and tke wath the lft.” Thats wh. in lpanese {he charters for halberd () and shied (together mean oneadtion GF) But that is only he start of emtadition, “The more we talk of offense and defense the more these ‘calate,unl everything gets out of Rand. Ht would have best och eter hid we gone a naked insted ike samo. wes, The more powesTl the ams we Ask with the more Fntense our wars By bling ineesingly onstous weap, ‘ms, we are only erating the cause of what could be @ ‘monsious tragedy. When people fist began making weapons, ‘hey wed thee and were ale to eoniol the, But todey, robots are building an endless supey of weapons and exerting tel over people, Someday robes may use weapons and ‘Manipulte computers to provoke wat. Wats aise fom te fxpeced extn “Today weapons are ina zae by themes, Things hive ‘tonto the point where weapons re moving peo. Adults10 ‘may think tha those invader and sta fighter shows ae just Pure fans, ut these ae thoroughly inulin our young: Ser. Oh sue i's okay ithe fn companies, toymakers, and Publher ake money off unsuspecting Ke but while wee Indulgng in such self-deception, wht are these Kids who have been brought up so thoroughly on military pablum ke this fing to start doing? You eat be sire that one ging 10 cop responsibilty forthe conseqenss, whatever they may be Today in Japan, all were doing i elamoing over out individual ites, about how people do a he pease and ‘thing ean be dove abou! Reflections on the Japanese After traveling around Europe, I gt to thinking tht the tine bas come when we must Begin to seriously examine theatre ofthe Jopancie. tw the shortcomings of Weserers, but ‘ery often those same shortcomings, fy tum them ups down, ca be great ast, Wererer have song ea, But because ofthis hey ae capable of beng completly dsieted {© and consent th 4 phosophy of eelove, They donot ‘become wrapped up ina group and lose a ease of sl, bt ‘euin alway esponsibility for themscves. This same sl love gives them a sense of independence that enables them to pret their rad and eave out new path "Te ral o the Japanese that, Bosse they have ben broght up ina home flo ation, they become obedient hildeen who comply mckly with the desis ftir parents, ‘This has the drawback of fostering an iesponsibe personaly ‘hat sen too mln to leave things upto others. Ths on te uae, the Japanese spear to beanie tote nese of ohers, obedient to society, and cooperative. This mentality Ss tsinforced by 9 hos of sayings in Janes, such as “The rll ha sticks out sal be harmere i,” and "One cant in over ones Retr” Sich notions app fo beth hey 4 bt how the average Japanese makes his way through his work But shold this pent-op ang enlode win the group ne fallin step behind someone's Banner and somes capable of doing anything atall"Ieveryone does it i's ot frightening,” hel sa. Tis ress nthe ere merry making that oxurs during the eery-iewing partis he pring, and in the wid eels ings that people wl Indulge in without he least compuncton or concer for what others think, The Japanese are 2 good people who love chrysnthstums But depending onthe leaders, they can be transformed ith peat ease into barbaric warriors Both they abd ees recognize them fo be a courteous people of higheinded mentality and deeply religious sentiments, bu to what extent fethis trusty Confasing eipouness with vss 1 emles and sins, the Japanese oday tke prt in mice slows events that have become tout atritons. As the apanese publi submits to te illusion ofa resurgence of religion, bind the eenes, men of religion are huni amasing money and powet For ther part. the philosophers too are noncommaly layng out plasiblesounding rpument founded on 2 plural set of values, that sincumstanes must Be appo= Pritly weighed. But mas’ ithe mision of the piloopher to ask what pluralism i and to unify the dicorant value systems of our world? Thee can be ony oe absolute ve system, and it should hae been upto phlosphy to show this, ‘What Lear most aow is that, although they had religous surroundings and sentiments, aside from avery fe ind has the Japanese never had a fis eliows cre ‘When the nepal bead of Shinto and Bushs which had ‘evelopod in Japan was ejected a a egtimate mix of to Aisinct regions, ths as rally transformed and split pact without the sigtest objection on anyone’ pat People aod in agreement and acrpt almost wnthinkinglymn absurdities, dseminatd as reasonable statement, 0 the ‘fect that Sint shat a eligi at all Bu Just» Sto ok belies and customs, Ics ely used and abused in this man- rer by the state and the powerful 1a a sense, Chistian, lum, and any othe elpion would have suited the Japanese jst as well as Buds, which goes to show tht the Jape tee themselves never had any religious conicons to Bean wih ~ Although itis possible to take this as meaning that the Japanese people harbor the potetal for aspiring tos religion ‘nat goes heyondrlpions and sets, he tut of the afer isha, quite tothe contrary, the Japanese have become aught ‘na quagmire of heey from hick they can no longer rice theelves Perhaps tobe expected that the ‘ties and morality of an iveigius people float about us- Inoored ike watered on pond, pinning and tmbing Stout end Japan cody is rapily being Americanized and plunging into culture of decadence. What wl ome of ft con: tines to follow inthe footsteps ofan aberrant Ameria where ews ofa s0-percent divorce ate ad S000 eid auctions {years normal: Beease Christan spi i sil ery much ave in Europeans they ae more resistant to Ameren tation, yet the else are apparent thee too. Jpn is loked dawn upon by people ll over the word san economi animal maleate nation of worker bes. ‘But what ae we to make ofthe Japansse, Wao fl to Unde stand what all this esas? ‘Look at today’s scents who have become the palanguin ‘bearers of rampaging science. They dace about wily, drunk (on te Sound of the words “high technol.” [Look a the dangerous poitcians wio rsh abeas macy slong the cond tothe mitaryndustil merchants of death ‘wile hoisting high the fg of peace. And ook tthe public ‘which suppers this ie emoeresis A Message for Peace Almost ity ears ago, 1 wrote a eter to Franklin D. Roose- ‘eT cid’ et aan, a cous, bt today Pm hiking of writing smiar iter again The year was 194, The Jp nese miliary was ivading China and Rossevct as tying 0 chek its advances, He even dheatened to shut of he oi ‘oes if Japan eid ake ts hands off China, Rather han seg around and wating to de, th Jnpanese mit insisted on fighting things out The eoutry bad ies buck up against, al Sill young man in my twenties Back then fet tht it appealed tothe American presidents sense of praenes by ‘wing my thoughts onthe Ueudlnee ofthe angronching footsteps of war and onthe contradntions snd errs of ie ‘man judgment this entailed, thi, however light the chaees, ‘his might help avert the outveak of wae, Sot wre alter to the President and placed it inthe ate of a report the toca! newspaper in Koch. Yes inde, Iwas young back then. OF couse, the leer was ever delivered. view wich sadness tis day on which, after having cached any advanced age. peepare to write down again the same ‘oushts that Lexpese so long ago, Well sam amare of ‘sry, wre tis eter ag if were my lst T wonder Whether the leaders ofthe United States, the Soviet Union tnd other counties woul cre to coir the thouhts and felngs of an od Tame. Like my rst missive fon ago to Rooseve, this oe 09 is wien a an open, nertopative ete (Christ sid, He who tives by the sword bal die by {he sword I wonder you think this was jus the Fervent dese aa dremnr?a Peon sy that toy you tanh nucear weapons in you sight hand whe Wi Your kt you ship fxd Stately throughout the word Do sou baeve that dousin th sich nee, become a champion of Jontce who sve he wot? Do you tink that you fan pin the work's run wih wespons? fn the East itis Sid tat no gre rans as deep as one ovr fod I you use food a6 sstepe weapon, YOU may can theta ofthe ete wor You demand toda That Sapa beraize ts foo! markt, bu how well do you cee the age and ination of apa farmer? Tote wy thought that pace mated i tne world through fore and stategems the emp eam of fol? Hie th sad desiny an dig of tan fo tleve tat the onl nue to tae a ee foram eye ant answer hate wt ate ee canno be won with weapons This as ays ‘een tea lok tito 1 keto point out tat way of thinking based on the theory of biological evi, which Hols tha ia tur world the strong Ted onthe Weak ane takes Toe rte that, ascording to the law of natural seletion, fe tet shall survive i founds on erer and fala [Nature in its original frm i either wold of competion nor of eoopeation. Viewed macrosopl lyin the natural worl there is ony the pis of 1 food chain about whic revolves the animated ow off and motion. Ubelee that the tue state of ature ome where here reno song oF WER no tema victors” absolute Tos. "That why i unpardonable ro mistake matoral selon a law of ature and, believing the survival ‘Of the fies to be the proper and univers couse for Humnaa progres otha ony natal that one mst iil alata eel o ® hs ‘endeavor 10 buildup mitay fore an to win out over War exis enly in man's world andi alien to the ‘est ofthe bolgial Kingdom: it doesnot belong to the matual wo. War ian absurdity hat ou fro, ‘he human inlet, "Tere are no grounds anywhere, anytime Fr jst ‘Man tony, as nthe past, wanders constantly Besse pce and war, freer expoed tothe eso of hostile {iss The wigaer of war may Be dav om the hash of ‘itinetons is fle judgment that encompass he lntre ofthe stat, good and ei love and bate Bur where do you yourself place the stars for sight and wrong in these human passions? ‘An mmutale, unchanging standard for edging 00d and evil right and rong, hat old foe the Entire werd snot something that cane arrived at ‘through the human intel Why, man does not even have an absoate scale with which to metsure wealth snd poverty wen comes fo rssving sont of elev hat the Bal jdgment sts with Gos tat we have noalterative Bu to baer the laws of rare Hos about? How do you view the responsi of leurs? Hisiory attests othe fc hat, while people through out the work dsite peace, wats ae always entra to the ieretion ofa small group of people elle the ‘he eer. Wars are never caused by the poo ho ‘occupy the botom rung of & tons sta ladder oF bythe “stupid” peasy ‘Most people count on the shrewdness id farted nes of thet leaders, but do you not think hat heiscriminating knowledge of humans is nohing ater ‘means for resaving contradiction? 'Ar human knowedge deepens, things do not besome sleace: this nly deepen te mses and increases the level of confusion ‘Confusion gos ne he cows of sspcion peat as eaders carefully deliberate and pinout plans and Statens Suspicion tims to fear, an Ter broods i “Tiss because, no matter how much reasoned eaue ion is exerted ana Row many Tneigent mectns are hel, iis no possible to hol ia check the passions ‘hat demand «tot for @ tooth and an ey fran ev. Nor sit posible lem the endles compete 1 spiral of weapon fer weapon Mankind nas eloped throws the harman nc and now through tha same Tuy nthe pres of allapsing. Yes even at this junae, we continue to ‘eck hatin trough the intl. Can you nots ‘hat the ony road fo soc sation sy dicing “The only option open 10 us now i to ve bythe vind of ida which ranacends human intl fence and bythe grest love of Crist which transcends fhman love and ate Neer his this ben more tue ‘We can no Toagee measur tomovzow with he i ines : Teel stonaly that he ie has come when leaders must be saviors, : In cur maeiitic word it ses to meas people sus about ranally solely pursuit of economic aMlence asi they struggle with each eter only over br cons of iners. This mat sry esa fromthe Sonviton that materi plenty inked dry th human joy ands the source of happines. er though anyone woul surly prefer tobe an pout for peace tha «merchant of dest why it {hat your country i throwing sl body ad sou into theaters ofan unsioppable msi ars ace? it beens, rather than becoming » powers servant of rece even i ean jig in consis wih the etchant of death, you aor the roa of power ste and a supreme ler Iso th a oe Ferloutsamble or ning “ Teve human joy does 0 come rom mate pos ssslons;no is happiness confeed fro without Such pth onlin ons susy from God “osha filed with pride the ute ofthe mou {ut ad es Sve at alti ste sea, Yet een Solomon, raed a his reat splendor he ight of his lr. ple ete singe yn the felis, Arcee wisdom teaches stat, nen wit {engl posenion, we canbe hay slong a here are tower inthe ls sis gig ieshoul be pinted at ht the ecloy of ma ional avenge and poweTl weapons he preatest even of nation’ poole Bene be hem oF itu joy and happiness, When a suntygrons a2 Suen, te people Peco pro and ascent, When the miliary grows ston. as nfoeee and te the people of thir edo ‘The truly wise and courageous do not ned wealth or weapons On ie other had no mater how mach ‘ey amass wealth and how Nigh they bud tice Eases those whose het fe ot geneous enol oy an nny deep. he moze county pots ely the wake it© ‘somes The more it presses forth in pursuit ofthe nom, the stanger Becomes the ener andthe ‘more remote become peace and feed, Loner what you think he ey plies. The Sogo the Osc sytt his the rod of moder ‘No, wich could be ought of sain st rom the sano of Wet clon and pio sopty, ors vs world of contadtos andthe ey ‘Reig hte to ml a ile road whe lang ‘ieand ee Tus ny meeps and dessins are {Seommn nthe Wet and so mock elt devoted {secknghareony and acon However the mile Toad ted bya dae poces ach i ant the road of lero to which Eater refer, Dat js shay sort tha ds nowhere, : According fo Oriental philosophy, ours is not a worl feat bata bole sles wel at trance puta tine Onl piloropiy hols thatthe apn of bole neal which nay Be led he standpoint of Gog -known on 10 thos wn sand the ue vl unending spare tine capa of teaming the Great Way fps ‘Ay tempt for dog and sooperston fom 3 vai paps il cly ne te oud sos, mpm ong. But one stands hm mere od Stnds and opee hs Hen, comes ad Slog ‘io Tonge ences. In Roms and Lando, People woul themes commit the ly of es Rp down the natura sa ane nen f tenting them sth weapons why not tes the peopl of he north and aout hems ote tw Ames Sonstie? This wil prove that Toys an the Fool, Gandhi ad he mers of Ame abo pare one ity. T ' esiiiicat sas 19 Surely then, people wil sce that what they thought ofas the enemy was ther own shadow, that cone teation is aothing more than two sides ofthe sae resi. “The swords of demons cannot tan up tothe hands ‘tbe, Weapons raed aginst naked chen ate ithe more dangerous. The greatest weapon of all ‘nay wall be the tare hand In Europe and Americ day, srl the tne hat come, ne to deeide between guns and bitter but to follow the spn of Christ and think seriously of what Je that people need to tne 1am trouble today by a great amsety. People are uring forward ito am age ruled by merlin and exaggerated Tih in Sen, al inthe proces ate metamorphosing into sophisticated computers sing the basi of i oi inthe pene, ife seins have analyzed these aod dover that man is boting other than a vehicle for transiting genetic information, ‘An age In which parents and teachers worry over fhe idelopally prejudiced eduction of children is sil preferable, for what i ein tterpted nests the handing of al problems snd concerns hy computers and robots in place of humans Ts there someone vd ith the courage tobe the frst to pres the nuceae baton? Since no mn oul posily have any longer the alto es all the relevant information and make an abelutely oe "ext decision, the responsibly wil have tobe dele- sted to computers and robots. But wil machines, tive at deiions superior o those fmt? Com utes are not expable of beconing aything more than faithful watchdogs programed by their asters, Yet ‘he day wll come when stacks of dats recessed and‘utp by computers wl etna dtl into {hlnuan eam, wl have some a mete data reccivng unit i order tht computers ae able to give fondere to humans and manipulate them. ‘Alb of concn isthe rap progres being mae in biotechnology. Seas who havent the slightest ea ‘oftme tue meaning and purpose of uma ie are busy devising ways to program ie have reason to Beleve that ne forms fife created with compoteied data and neti engineering il become a source of human ela Hers ant says tat human thought ad mans various basic rotons ae al erected on the universal «prio forms (otions of pace and time, Naturally, computes 100 de only deve eoseucted on the Base of he cone {pls of space and time. Hence, they are marly ma {mines which make erroneous denon that ier undamtenaly rom the dessons and ims of God, sso makes dcons fom a standpoint tha ramcends Space ad tine Moraover 0 mater how sper he ving things reat y fe sclests hough gene reson tion, these ae crested with effiency foremost a ‘nnd. Seems cannot posibly erent perfect organ- fa that go beyond the vast and ine standpoint oe God See today are under te Muon tat they a replace God asthe Lod a all eration. But no matter how much they may squirm and struggle, there is no ‘sting around the fe thatthe superna new ‘reais create by man sal forever be imperfect. ‘atures caught thin the domain ofthe cone of Space and time, My concem is this: Ta the even hat, foundering under a deluge of information, sou were neither ale ‘escape the gp ofthe merchants of death nor check sili oe wt the wild rampage of science, who should people look 'o for succor? Having deseied God, man il ct be bl tortura to His ide, Does this meat | wonder "hat humanity wil become an orphan ofthe univers? ‘Are my concerns nothing more than empty fr? Ismy thinking perhaps al rong? If you ould tle, ‘would be e most unespectd delight.The Japanese Diet Takes a Turn for the Worse 1 hink most people would agre that, judging from the structural etores ofthe human bod the proper food Staple for man is pain. Although we ll hve cusps for ‘Bing an tering mest soto the teh aoe fr cH ing are mols. The human skeleton and the rte ofthe Ihumaa aw ako make man sited tothe tag of grains. ‘Tapenese peasants in articular have retain the ito « hebivre: Given the country’s clinate ad train this dict te, ce, fost mit, proso mile, and barnyard mile ‘Known in Japon asthe “fv grains”—Iong served ou the Staples. Consumption of the five grins wat bse dary ‘rincipe in the traitional Japanese farming communi. more, except for re and burly. The miso gains have been all but forgoten. Wit ther sal sete an Tom il, Production of the miles ae shied over slstexclsvely fo ie and barley. But i seems to me that it inthe prime, ‘zu bea and bucket, which ae bet for human Health, So would say that, of the five grain, how withthe sal ‘ends that are the mos primitive ate probly the Bes oe. Tour modern word, however, everyone yer after wht falas and tant. "Digger beter” sce oa tas) fru aswell as gains. Yet, soe energy i ore highly orden in se things, would entre to sy That it Iisprobably beter to go with what is smaller han bigs. ‘Te det ofthe Japanese farmer has undergone rapid,changes. Today he minor exes are diippearng and he ‘word “vegetables 1 being replaced by such terms a "ely ‘egeables"and"grecns” Meal, the quality of whats beg grown deteriorating ce and bare toy is 00 Tonge the ce and bate of yesterday “The Japanese ar inthe proces of freeing more than Just the the grains ana the “hve vegetables” Ar ave ‘ready pointed out, there wae atone tie a enormous Variety of foods Japan. BY addin togethe the sais, ‘egtbls, fui, and edible wid herbs that can be guthord From the ies and hls about my wilag, one can create @ Te sai that the Farmer of old were poor, eating only ee cooked with bare, pickled vepeable, andthe sou Picked plum (omeloo, but in seas their's was a ma ‘eous dit. “Tyas Ope MIEN 0 gather together the Best our Season foods from the supermarka shee, one cannot erate from this tue feast. Nothing beter characterized the and and diet of Japan than is abundanoe of veelables and ile heros ‘Too Few Vegetables in the West. White in Europe and Americ, was spied a the small ‘ety of vessasier gro nd ete tte About the oly Foot vegetables that Europea and Americans sem oe a any quantity are aro, Thee i plenty of burdock growing ‘ld, but no ane eats. They don't even tit of thi ae Food. I remember hearing about how Japanese soldiers who ‘et Airis burdoch at poner of-var cps during te svar were suse ater of war eines for forcing prisons {2t"uoe root” That the extent of Ameian ignorance ‘thes it comes to 001 vegetables, The sue trae in Eutope {5 wel They do grow potatos and some other tubers, but w are all. did occasionally ser sweet potatoes, but they ‘ere quite diferent fom he deisous, th ieling sweet. ‘otuoes commen 1o Japan, And no one et ars, 90 one ‘als burdock, no one ets lots 100 o bamboo shoot, ‘The fact that Westerners et lay vegetables bu lost 29 tot vegetables means that they ae eating only hal of wat ‘ey should Even interme of nteitonal lance he deeper ‘ots penetrate into thes the mor primitive they ace ad ‘th Btr for the body, The yams ought tobe the Best. By ‘ang root vegetables good forthe body snd vepeabes ih infer suchas burdock, sweet potatoes, an bute shot, ‘ne wil never be constipated and wil enjoy the beni tft thee have on the health Bt instead of eexe Foods, eope in the West eat only met. bet tha thi why #0 ‘any people ae constipated. IT may be pardoned for wan ing poetic naan: Sweet potato turds, [eft ohn, make and stone The tous psi. ‘When I was ia Europe, I athe to people in ly and ‘yesiters ee | went about sweet poators. Although they ‘oul prow sweet potatoes quite easily there, almost no one Seemed to ow about ths vegetable, Once Leven began Ik tow aroup of fea farmers wives by tlie them about ‘By spell hgh sild method of reet potato culation I any ease, hee doesnot sem tobe any other county with Such 2 ich variety of foods for cooking pan, ‘Returning s moment toric, barley, and whet these are ‘the best crop in terms ofthe clare food tht cn be produced ona given sreage. The sore outputs of com and Potatoes ave also hgh, however, neon climates, In Jam, ‘owing ise and rey or whet ies the highest ouput of fares, and eultvaton Is cas- Hence, these rope asthe bet hice when tomes to making festive ase of ited land ‘To this day, Thve Fought against the endony in Japanas A following the was to dai the rice paddis and plant the land with citas groves The Japanese farmer mst not op producing ice, Brley, and wheat. Net only do these rans five the Best yield of food energy fom the ited sable land, they are the most appropri for Japan's climate. ‘Smother eason i that nan drove the great lk of his Estos fom ice and west, Roughly ba ofthe works Population uss whest sete food staple, while the athe half “The nomad peoples ofthe eld mortem countries hunted ‘and cajajed animal Nesh. They became meatesters 9 make Up for the shortage of runs. In Europe and Ameria, the practice arose of ug wheat, ich arows well on ci, ry, ‘levaed ground, the dietary mainstay, and eating aso lot of meat, Onge twas ground into Nou, proses, and ‘made into brea, wheat wis «convenient food espe Tint amang nomad peoples becuse It could be preserved and was convenient 19 carry. Inthe warm, humid subtopics honevee upland vce was grow in ily elevated locations, and pay ce om at an. ‘although mankind can be divided into sse-catng people and what nd breateating peop, the questions of whether Iman should make sce or wheat hin staple and what he shold ft in genera nluing assorted cereals and veges, must be sted. Allman fa tows to follow the course sf are and feed randomly om the foods that arse nately the region mat ne hes. The question to ask ot wht 10 tow here, ul wha grows hee, Wilt ntsc o take a8 the tuple oo for winter the ice harvested inte al, and to take a the Food Tor summer the bal therein ate spring? "The Japanese farmer dit not ak what tod fo grow aed cat, He simply harvested and te wha gew naturally in is {sisi each passing seaton. Ard he cooked ths fod in accordance with the principe of nature. There are not ist ‘rople who grow fod through the devies a he itl fist theres natural food and people who lve in “do- thn nate. “his was the original way of ving in Japan an the proper ay of eating (a sere at). But unforunae ast maybe, things have changed compleely ovr the pst decale o #9 Japanese Diet and Cooking Are Disappearing EL may sy 0, no otter peopl oriinaly had such sharp sens of taste and were an good at cooking asthe Japanese ‘Ope strong Tetng had throughout my teavels in rope and America was that pan’ cooks and eels have nosed to go tlewhere for instruction. Al they ought odo visit J ese farmer's wie et cern hat the sil ofthe farmer's ‘wife in flavoring food would allow her to pas fora maser ‘he anynere nthe word T would even venture co sugest to those poople studying Wester cuisine in Japan that rather Gan going to all that trouble in Japan they would do Beer to go abroad ad ‘vide clay guidance ther, One reason that, although ol progress hasbeen made i Janes cooking, ht has ‘sed ito dvege fom nature, resting ina deine inthe ‘uli ofthe mates. Eventhough the sil f cooks har tied steadily to improve andthe umber of Japanese ets worthy of international acl has increas, they 20 ‘onger have good materia o work wi. The oly mats salable today are proces foods prepared chamzal trom petroleum products. That inlues everthing fom vegsabes ‘ich as tomatoes, egeplans, and cucumber, orice and hal and even fish, wich are the prot of fe Farming ‘pean ater tan cag tes fo lal wate i ‘he post. Either tat, or tavlrs bring back deepen hom the South Seas. No matter how shld he cook i the mae ihe works with ate no good, thet is nahin he can do “Tat being the stution ast sands today, I gt the feng10 that things may rovers. While the Japanese have Oriental toes, thei thinking being pled by Western poso- Bly: they ate becoming devotes a cence. Scenic apr fultire being pracced ty in Japan and the foods ‘ten here have Become Westerns petcleumbasd prods, Given their dogged preoseupation with nui at {he eeuson of al ee, the apanen foo wil surly become + Young people in Japan today have tkeo eating ham burgers at standup counter. Buti i realy al ip or there to be eating that kindof instant food? Clay,» confess et nas mise peopte and, once mised, they bes fo adopt Sumptuous and exteagani eating hibits rom this high int they wil probly plunge downward a an accelerating rate Westerner are aes avare of his. The ferigess who ‘some to vit my fr in Shikoku ll me’ “Frankly i di Sppoited by what ve found sn Japan. enough hat he se tural farming had ben developed here, i woul hae auph on well by now. But nobody’s doing it over hee, And thes I went to vst shopreing natural Foods, note of them bento compare wih he outs beng operated in Ame, ‘The average person ithe ret knows and cares even ese People ia goteral Jon have the slightest inkling of the tae ‘ae ofa natural it.I Soems thatthe ony ones eatin ‘natural diet here are the sick and the nate overs” "A cea reversal wom to hve ooured nth panese ute concering esses food, thing, an ster out fen to een yee ago. 1k ths keenly while sanding ‘eceal in ont of the Yokohama Castors Bureau where ‘worked clos to iy years ago. Woeking as wedi inthe ‘lant inspection diision, we were goverment ofa 29 we oul fort lok impor but we aver ek ousevc to te the equals of the foreigners there, There as servi, ‘tenes, about Oriental people, Westeers in their at slots sling through Yamashita Pack ia Yokohama with ee chide looked so digied and eomposeds 383 rae, i 2osnasasinasia eas lcci ae efionncciaaianl icin ‘hey scemed acu above us. The chien would walk: cght into the Fancy restaurant sd hotels tulyunpertrbe, Now tat I think of that way perfectly natural. Japanese hide today enter these etblshinents without the last Irsiation. Way back then, Wester chen oul str fight ito aac places, bot Japonss had bard tie use. ‘igi, Even customs ois such sus had har time Eering paces ike these without etn selconcious. Lately however when f pay the por ty «vt [ind that itisthe foreigners who are desed poorly ad the lpanese ‘who are al spruce up. Ta restaurants, even the cite it ‘amy inter cha sa Took up at the walter a he pce thee orders. When I ee this atte, Icnnot be eng that things are now the exact reverse of wa they were when worked here. The Westerners ip in quiet et something kn off in corer ofthe restaurant, an herry ont asin. The Japanese on te other han, come in rand sled cen te clea appear to look dawn upon Westerners, ‘That i how ferent things are tod. ‘But somehow T get the feling tht we could see another ‘eves agin ten years fom now. People in Japan weed 2 ook ney atte proud Westerners and the thik sake ‘hey were cating inthe restaurants and think, "Ge, Fs ke {oy eating tek ke that jst once,” Well today they are tating steak, while Westerners bave take to vegeta. ‘This reversal nit sume to suggest something. CCnsion over dit contin fhe body and the ming It alfets everthing. The Health af the body comes from the ‘et And thought arses fom the bod Diet and Thought one sops to consider what thought emerges from, itis shear tha if the dat fers, the posique fer nd thinking ‘ers Even the blood changes A diet wth lots of mat1s reli aii load wile a vegetarian dit makes he Blood kane Alalne blood pes one a gene, peaceful dispose ion. Oriental poop are aid 1 be mikemperel et wate like, but in elit the people ofthe Orient are quit rai cating peoples become quet and peaceoving. But when fun ing and fishing races eat meat, such as do the Westerners, the blood beeomes ai. The foods they courte are highly concentatd energy. To borrow a vew propounded by George Osta, founder ofthe made arabic ‘movement, mets yang. People who eat veeabls and fruit tacoma yn. When one yn, one Becomes ie and fe nie. When one eats Hes and bod, the Blood lou and Aid: One is masculine, active, and agressive, Alkaline bod makes one quits, calmer and ore peaceful, hile aids blood makes one more aserive and macaline. This assetvenes helped the West conquer the entire world atone Sime. Largely vestaranries~such asthe Orental and [Negrid ras were suppressed and defeated, Meateating race ar ike lon, The show intense ene an ee me tally advanced. Because they are knowledgeable and p+ cally tong they ofanined the Ceusades ad congpeed he ‘word. But they are sable to oss their efor for very Tong, Wheat comes toa marathon, the spears and ‘rlmeates are sperioe euners. That why, eventhough these tier may have appeared o be facing rin, they Wee bl to hold out and are today again reestablishing them Setves. On the oer hand, we have a people that ted fo Sutjugate the wosld with physica stregth but was unable to do so compleey and has now stopped tying. ink this is ht es behind the ging phenomenon we are sexing in the Wer. wih the West a andl duet the rapid aging of society there, the Japanese have eabght upto and pssst by. That show fr Japan's economic growth has taken her Even as they are being passed, Westerer appear to an by qty with thir a folded, Bat with the weigh OF 1 7 sisi eh centuries of philosophical ast, they are loking on calmly St cooly The people ofthe Oren, and espa the Tapanese, hve come fa, ging in importanee and prestige lovthe point where they lend the worl in any ways. But ‘Westenes the lpanese ae merely rein the eoute pasted ove eater By the WestA Seed War Is On. Americt's Food Strategy’ It seems 10 me that he ory of America Inet product a the sintie methods of farming that have bse developed ‘over the past vo hundred years. Bu ada. the problems of potiaion an entrany engenders ty moderne are Starting to she the very Toundaton of he American sytem Tete that one ofthe things thas Resnnng to aie in ‘he dark shadows of eiizton is Amerie’ ood sratey “America today prides tel on is role te esd basket ‘ridin grain production, apparently believing thatthe oun) can fea and even congue the world with ood and ‘scapes. For some tine now Amerie’ bse Pla as been ‘e conduc thee two major statepes independent ofeach hie complied handsomely. 'BULT have my doub ao how long this strategy can be pursued believe that ist eegard Tor he tnd wil be “America’s dowafll If he and fl victim to American Fam ‘wont Hold cut even My Years more Ie may ast another ‘weny orth a the most. ledee, continuing sete Farming for een twenty moce years wil be dificult I suspest that mos farmer wl give up before then. The eve of hs treakdown i asclre wil e fbn se sie cheyhere become desperate ‘What [Tea most ht now thatthe land which has urtred and protected Amer’ mers in he prowess of beng ruined. Each year, American agriculture Is spprooching i mp i" Siiacsnasciaii wie fai asec ae {limi of no retur. Once this is exceded, no amount of ‘sort wl succed in resablnhing the farming methods of the pus. When the land perishes lng or no, the defeated Sarers wil hve no choe butt become the pawns of apibusiness. Food production mil have tobe crtisd out as ofa broader ste, etme be more explck. Conteol over Americas sede today Tes Sguaelyia the hand of five ol companis, Working and in hand with poll and econ interes, the il companies have moved int Baindty and Begin fake onto of agriculture. The sed war stared lng befor his, “he moment hat America's ol companies conaiate thet onitol over the seds of cereal pain sch areal cor Andover superior ines ofvestck, Asner’ farmers wll be hone fr. The truths thar the hands ofthe oi companies he already srtched out ovr the etre word Even T msl have ean drawn into this re, Rice Seed as a Weapon or many, many years now L have devoted myself ta ie production, Belving femiy that Tres in any age us ever forget se. However, with the rice we have today fe cannot grow natural ise. Todays rie bas bch bred and improved so much by man that I finde med and totally nsrstactory. Long ag, 1 fe at if strong, hard stk to natural farming could be developed, it would be as 19 ‘rows se out halsricusy terete new varies of his Ban, My gol was the enact opposite ofthe nev ares that gical eens sive for vy ambidon Was to Bring Dac the Rhy ress of ese ‘ay. Teven thought hat i such vara were to Be bough to counties sfering from foo shortages and thee grow scoesly by natural farming methods this might elp hal the enceachment of scintic agriculture. However, suchsods were to fl fisting the hands of the CIA, they woukt be crossed by the oi companes with the mae tne roe develope by Profesor Choo Shiai (ce arte elon) and ‘soon become hybrid ie wha bythe powers tht Be ae {too for profit-making and strategy. Is indeed Sad that ‘when countries sant competing to develop hybrid ie as ‘statesie wepon, the whol effort dapeerates nt Me Yer) Same sor of ugly confrontation as the nude ams race, The following atl, whic appeared in Japanese nthe January 3, 1984 isu of the mational newspaper Asal! Shine fam, reltes my exerenes wit the new vastly of ce 1 dztlopea omy fam an fers timp of fe neratons “ed wa” Japan, US. Vie ln Development of HighVieldng Rie Seed Revolution ad advocate ofa Way of farming that does ‘ot rely on penises and chemical erlizers, word [Athis home in yoshi, Ehime Prefeture recently, he Seventy-yearold natural farmer held bis head ia his hands {dsb Fepestedy, kept saying how be Rad gone aad one something that cou not be undone "What Fukuoka fas done so erose a gtnous rice someone browsht back from Burm afer World Wat ‘Two wit Japanese nonglutinous rice. After years of rosbroasing ad wlan, he han sere in elope ing many lines of spebigheing re. Based on ‘aleltions from the number of grins grown on a singe ‘ure meer of and, thse new vse yield about ene etre ton of rice pe quarter, whichis roughly twice thes superighicling aces cou kick up a on Frontation over seeds betwen Amerisan multination fs and Japan. Im March 1983, Fukuoka app to the Minisey of ws this new types of ce as new cutive under the Sea lings Lav. Late last yea (98, ee on ther Business in Tokyo, he decided to check on how his appiation vs going and paid the Minty a vist eying ith in Seedlings ofthe fou ies, "Dow's out tnt seed"? A he Ministry, four officials sarrounded Fukwoks and tod bi, "If he US. ts hold ofthis and convert ieiato hybrid Free, ‘hey tur t agains us, We want you to refi from Sending this eed out of he counts Tr thse years and teh carefully any vistors" Each ofthe ofcls added ‘rods of enti, one going trough the routine of Pretending to pick up a seed and pace it in hit pocket, ‘warning Fukuoka tht “someone may even ty Co ses ‘of wit jos a singe seed" What mae an especially stron inpresson on Fukuoka war the ear "Make sre this sn a repeat of the Shing iden.” Fukuoka worries that his supes-yiing ries may get ‘aught up inthe atonal drive by Japan to develop ‘own hybrid FI seeds to counter US, hard, This co ‘Montaton beheen Japan tad Amare dates bck to 981, when Willa Davis, counsel or agra ais at, ‘he American Embassy in Japan, called pon Toshi Aizawa bead ofthe Ariat Production Divison A the Agiural Ministry le scems that US, sed ‘sompanies waned to sel ee Sed to Japan. The purpose ‘of Davis vst nas to ask for information onthe echnical and legal feasibly of entry int the Japanese seed markt. iting the highly particular Japanese tse fore, the ‘sompies natural cand in Japan, aad the existence ‘of both a Foodstu Conta Law which in principle requires permission forthe inport and export ofl food relied ites, nclding sad, and ofa lant Commun table Disese Contra Law, Asizits expat ih avr nto te Japanese market would be dif He also6 Indicated tha, rom the standpoint f national seri, ‘he only sen cours for country was to prods is ‘own ie ted domestics Tn spt of thi, Richic$ Sabelon, present of Ring Around Prodvta major US. seed rake tat com neil sels hybrid I rie sod, eame to Japa in Match 043 and sted the National Federation of Agi cra Cooperate Assocation (Zenno} and the Agri- cultural Ministry, He also approached several Japanese ownpanies about Forming partnerships foe the production tnd salen dapan of hybrid FI se wad, The Ministry {oid Samoston th sme things it had tld Davis bat ‘undated by this he returned gai to Japan that sme Sune sod stepped up his elfots co develop the lea! ‘market. “Tis nitive to sl rc seed, and especialy hybrid seed, caught the Agreutual Mins Foal by surprise, The Ministry had oe conducted any research ot tens to ep of on Fre, Plans di exis Yo sta the Production of oer nce for ue in prosase Toads aot Fesuinin taste conseratons. ARDowgh i had Inonchod iseyene pan in 196 that called forthe development of Superighyilding strains ofr, the Ministry bad nt Jnclodd FI ree inthis, Funds were quickly earmarked for FU development frm the Minty’ scl 1982 bude but had it kep lover ee on the sing movements broad concerning hyd FI ce, the MInsry would rover have eon caught of is guar ‘To undersand why this happend it is nesesary 0 take a ook atthe episode involving Proesoe Shingo fof the Facily ot Agnouture at Ryukya Unies, Whose mime the ministry oficial brought up before Fuku ‘ka, Shnjo was thet to demonstrat tothe word the ‘potential fo the agricultural production of Frise (se Felow foram explanation of Fie). “This roporer Ws the profesor nt ls ear a is 1 sted net, 1969. ° einen ‘eduction program, Shinj's research evoked no real = Stes,ters of the mison aed for complet st ofthe male ‘Serie in alongwith he acompanding aintenance nd eecovey lines developed by Sint. On too ad to thie where his could be of el in rains food produc tom sho sper vo evenings tring 0 the Chie tlepation a hot! in Tokyo apd handed ove a otal {aDSead oneting of compte et fs F Yates. “The Chins ha been working on tests fo he develop Inet of pracal Frc wing a male serie stain Siscovered on Hainan Islnd Te 10 seds recived from Shinjo were immediatly aed tothe projet. I 1974, Ship give a metlong seis of tres, sx Dos aa in Peking teling everyting he could about bis sus thas far Then in 1978, announcing hat they bad oe ‘ded inher fot to develop pratal FL eth ines avid Shingo over to ae fo himsel Fram Chinato America: 1979, the US. giant ‘chen aol ssgied the ih the se of Chins Feo tea year Ring Around the ed mpony whose presses fo scot ou the apa scien i wih non. ‘Stnpny tempted fo nde the FY eno Japan trait fad gts om We Cin, witout any farther bres ‘cir ater ie tl af the company tout somuch aa word of warming ng sme apn 0 Ghost the cue ines ofthe Americas. Tm 8 Specular thatthe U.S. compari had simpy been {Bho ety rhs obi om China Jaane sin onder top ofiet a Doies sump tin he ‘Gian grup. Bu Tats Ono, destoro ‘sont fo ihe Proton of Ne Vt who ‘hme into contact with he present of Rig AU Sina, ey reno evo up Far fom As a ate [onthe ting eady fo a up operations oer 1st ‘ere:” Occidental not the only maioe US. india conglomerate that has ses ison commercializing Fine in apa. Although isnot likely to happenin the nea future, shod the US. eventually sical in developing sins of FI ee that ae relatively welled to natural onde ‘ons in Jape, and should sls in Japan prov to be roftable and problems concerning lant quarantine Surmounted, what thea could happen? Eflrts to Keep ‘out thse Fl seeds withthe Foodstuffs Control Lav, for example, could agaravae tad ition betwen the to sunt. Bet Ie suppose fra moment that Fed Produced in he U.S. were impor into Japon Sine the ‘grout production of he 2 (econ generation) re is imposible (ee rechnieal description of hybrid FI ie ‘low, Japan would hae to import the FI sed every singe yer. As Tong as business good, the company Producing the seed wil never pat with so mut Ainge Set of the Ft parent sn tht ithe lifebiood of is busines. Ti sation wl eBetvely pace pat of Japan's rie predvstion capac inthe conto the eed ‘companies supplying the ce seed, andthe counties o Which these Blons The head of Pioneer, Amerie’ Irs seed commpuny, ‘as reportedly sad that FI seeds fr oon ate being exported fom Amerct to the Soviet Union to help bolster tin production tere. Naturally such a ase the “Amerian sei holdng on aly to the parents ofthat FL seed and wouldnt dream of iting igo Even nthe case of hybrid Fl seeds, he larger and ore Aiverse the genetic poo svaable for beeing the rear ‘influence his ap help bring to ear on seed mares ‘That's because varieties that are genetically ahr remote fiom each other tend to rel ima clearer expression of ‘With the exception ofa very smal umber of experry Jnpan a8 whole hs shown litle interest until rcentiy inthe colle of such gene resources. Wotd as it that he United States and the Soviet Union carey Ihave amased the worl’ largest colleton of crop goren ‘pln, The US. hav x tradi of asrctng the iis Aiplomti ervce oles plant germ pam wherever ‘hey mere atone The bost tat Commodore Petry ‘ame over on, and evn he US. Occupation Foros following Word War Two, collected sem pis in Japan, Promising “Fubioka FP" Rice: Profesor Shi i now ooking with interest at Fukvolas superhighyeing ice Because i contains the genes of an ancient Burmese tice hati genetically remote fom existing Japanese “arietis. Rie bieved to have ovigiated inthe rion {hat incldes the Yunnan Proving in southest Chin {shy Shino tel believes hat oustanding pene plas whisk as not been distorted though tifa breading ‘emai presenti the native Varieties there ‘Such Being the case, the professor cant help dreaming or the opportunity Yo bung Fukuoka’ supehigh yielding Fie fo fest potent a 3 hybrid. Fukuoka has rected tr Irom people in China and South Kose gesting amps of hi ie ue although the eters ‘ve no indeation of the retone forthe rq, ‘Of course, there no telling ow things i ir out experiments for FL production ae conducted on Fuki ofa’. But should suces be han devsoping Powerful Fines wit these, fil msun hat couple of ounty fk out in Ehime Prefecture andthe Ry ‘wi nave ein th panes om ths nat mindedness. Up uni now, heeds of the ac hat any ous have Inadequate foo proton, the Japanese have frowned upon research once, saying ha a) ‘country i already produces too much ws Wary of Exploitation by Corporations: Fukuoka does feo as if he would ike o help a lagging Japan win out gins th dsins of malntonals suns for contol ofthe county's fod resoures. Bu he is rouble by fave doulis ove the preset aco deveop es! “aries, is fear that av reso of ends ene tampering to ge cetindesied tats nic being