Reports:

Meeting with Rikiya Nakata:

Very resourceful meeting today and it was a surprise. Things are moving fast in the first month of the year 2019. Now meeting with the owner of some of the most beautiful coastal regions of Japan, that calls for a celebration. Through my good friend Naoko Kubo, today might be the best day of 2019 so far. Riki (surname) was so kind to spend about 5 hours together in Shinagawa station on his way back to Wakayama. What a beautiful state! Riki is the proud owner of a most exquisite hotel garnished with “Onsen” – click on the photo  below:

This is a place like that, I would choose for a Marine Foundation branch office even if we had to rent a suite a whole year, it would be worth it. We would organize our first symposiums there as people would come comfortably surrounded by nature at its best to think solutions better. There is so much that can be done and come to think of it, we are blessed in Japan with majestic nature where Tokyo actually is a minor destination if you were to make a geographical beauty contest, places like Wakayama would be winners year round.

Most important about such hospitality organizations, the status is often reflected in the state of mind of its leadership. I can already tell how welcoming is the Hotel Seamore “Key Terrace” by the kindness and open heart of its owner. Riki is surely out of the ordinary because when I meet Japanese corporate leaders I am often confronted with a lack of open-mindedness which is not the case here. Riki opens up in English and is not shy of telling you he is just like you and me, and if you are a friend then make your way and let’s have a good time and hopefully we could be serving societies together if we happened to have a plan.

Marine Foundation does have a plan and I could help this hotel turn into an international hub for large and small gatherings that would make ways to support the local economy and stir international awareness of our organization sound development solutions for the entire world. I have the faith, the certitude, conviction, assurance, and confidence to help the world change for the best. But we need to meet, we need to celebrate together first, we need to understand that we are sailing on the same ocean and that we all come from the same waters. The breakthrough in technology in not in the discovery of what can be imagined to be done, but rather it is the application of getting together and deciding to actually substantiate everything we dream about. It finally happens when we agree together on the base of realization that it will benefit our children. Nothing else will work. Perfect Project Design happens when the next generation is accounted for.

Dinner with Yuka & Takuya:

Takuya Adachi and his beautiful girlfriend Yuka Kobayashi, invited to most delicious Yaki-Niku restaurant in Akasaka today. Truly this young man is a Bright future and Yuka, well she is destined for greatness from birth.

Sometimes, we older people are reminded of the pure reality that young people are genuinely blessed with virtues that we often wished we had cultivated a bit more through our so-called “life of experience”.  This is here the example of Yuka and Takuya whom how of their heart invited me to what I think was a very costly feast. I wish I had shared more about what my conscience was prompting me to tell but the warm atmosphere of the kindest and brightest people you would meet on planet Japan, kept me diverting into just smiling, listening, eating, tasting and just being just comfortable just enjoying this marvelous evening together. Takuya and Yuka are both brand owners of the trademark of the Marine Foundation. Yuka from an already very well established family from the city of Ise Japan, shared about her volunteering years to India when she witnessed sick children dying almost on her lap and then thrown into the river accordingly with local obligations to the humanitarian crisis there. I never knew Yuka has had experienced such deep and sad moments and it clearly explained her dedicated heart to want to make a better world for children to grow. Takuya is a young genius who has taken a hold on the business world from an early age to creating several companies. I am always learning I say, but it is interesting that I learn most from young people. It looks like their heart still resides in God’s palm and wisdom needs not an old age to be acquired. This evening was much more inspiring than I can describe here, but I will let my thoughts land slowly on my keyboard at some later time, because yes there is so much to share.