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: Mindfulness
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A Trip to Real England
Although it was a bit while ago, I made a private trip to the United Kingdom. It was not the British Hills, not an English village, not a British-style cottage in Tochigi Prefecture, not any other “fake Britain” in Japan. It was the real England, where I had wanted to visit before I died. I visited London and Haworth, West Yorkshire. Both of those places were introduced in the Japanese manga Emma by Kaoru Mori, which was one of my favorite comics I’d ever read.
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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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