Thirty years ago today, an event that can’t be forgotten and shouldn’t be forgotten occurred in Kobe and its vicinity. Ten years ago, I posted both English and Japanese entries of what I had experienced, witnessed, and thought at that time; you can read them below:
Category: Health and Medicine
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The Words of the Year 2023
It’s time to wrap up the words of this year. As I do every year at the end of the year, I’m looking back at what has happened to me and what I have encountered over the past year, and I’m listing them up in a few short words.
The words of 2023 are flight simulation, fitness, TOEIC, and voice recognition.
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The Words of the Year 2022
The words of this year are: web3, Ford Focus, gout, and pilotage.
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The Words of the Year 2020
It is time for me to look back at what I experienced this year and summarize it in some words, as I do it every year-end. This year, COVID-19 has affected a great deal to the lifestyle of people all over the world, including myself. I have been forced to stay home and work from home for most days of this year.
Despite such restricted situations, I encountered some new things. The words of this year are Synapusyu, the handgun, and computer programming.
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Changes of the World From COVID-19
COVID-19 is dreadfully spreading throughout the world, hospitalizing more than 3,100,000 people and taking the lives of more than 200,000 patients as of April 29, according to Johns Hopkins University. It is no exception here in Tokyo.
The virus is forcing all people in the world to change their lifestyles. Many have been grounded for months. Essential workers, such as doctors, healthcare workers, firefighters, law enforcement officers, supermarket clerks, garbage collectors, delivery service personnel, and staff involved in public transportation, work outside facing the fear of infection.
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Another Approach to Health
Ayurvedic medicine, or Ayurveda, is a traditional medical system with a 3,000-year history native to the Himalayan region. Even today, it is regarded as part of alternative medicine in such countries as India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Especially in Sri Lanka, it is protected and encouraged as a national industry by the Department of Ayurveda, the world’s only administrative ministry dedicated to it.
There is a Sri Lankan-style Ayurvedic clinic in Japan that I’ve visited monthly for almost half a year. Sunil Nishimura, a Sri Lankan Ayurvedic practitioner, has been running this clinic in Kawagoe, Saitama, since 1996. He first came to Japan in 1994, and soon after, he became ill due to the stress of his life there. He asked his family to send him Ayurvedic herbs. He took them, imported from his home country, and changed his eating habits to Sri Lankan ones. He soon recovered his health after he changed his life. That was why he opened an Ayurvedic clinic for Japanese people suffering from diseases of civilization.
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