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Junko whom I have met a while ago today was able to join the Marine Foundation as a “Brand-Owner” lifetime membership along with Aya Miki whom also I have met just over the weekend. Junko’s page is ready and soon tomorrow we will have Aya’s page and information ready.

I am always so pleased when someone comes into the ownership position. This is a position that will be closed very soon as the number is very much limited. In Japan, the foundation accepts only 36 members. However, this is a very special and unique position and it means what it means, as being an “owner” – Brand Owner. It might that such system is the first to apply through the Marine Foundation, I am pretty sure that in the near future other organization will imitate it and that will be good I think. Ownership principles should be based on “groups” and that would facilitate certain sustainability in the way people think of the future. We surely are not on this planet forever and to think of possession is simply a temporary reality. But to leave a legacy that can transcend time and generations, is here the chance to shine like a corporate kingdom, leaving a trace behind and I suppose it is the way we human being like to live our lives, knowing that we could give something to the next generation and making, therefore, a difference with improving a part of this world. Leaving a legacy is a bit like being a co-creator to whoever created this beautiful planet and universe.

Segment: The abundance of YOU: (part 2)

What I mean by “no exception” is that we are all destined to depart from the world and that certainty does not exist in our conscience as something drastic or even something that bothers our ways of living every day. No one really thinks of departing the world while we live here in constant hope of achieving all that can be achieved and completed within our short days and years of living. In fact, we live to experience the constant desire to waking up to eternal thoughts of receiving that supreme energy we call “love”. The physical sun that is felt on our body has the same attribute of that spiritual emotional love that helps endure, transit and admire life on earth. We all have the same desire to express ourselves in the best of our abilities. There is, therefore, some kind of “abundance”, we all feel we deserve to have and if we were to talk about “eternity”, no one would consciously deny the existence of a greater “ME” just like there has got to be a greater world out there, where “ME” or “MYSELF” has got to be important. So what it is that makes YOU a unique individual, someone so special that if we really knew the potential we each have to experience life in its fullest, we would simply wake up in the morning and have a totally different interpretation to what we think about “fate” or “destiny”. We would wake up without the contradictory walls that elaborate on what others or society think of “me”. Instead, we would rather choose the path of knowing what our conscience is telling us directly and personally, like for example, the deep insights into what this surrounding universe really thinks of “YOU”. (To be continued…)

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Yes, it was a good trip to Nagoya and in the morning of the day, I see Nagoya like a painting shouting out of the hotel’s window (photo below). Nagoya is a beautiful Japanese City and the people there would not need to move to Tokyo to find prosperity as it is all here. This is the birthplace of “Toyota” the car maker and just that proves the wealth of the state. People here are very different in so many ways and it is said that they have great pride. I would think so too, but I think it is even more than that. The kindness here is felt different from the people of Tokyo and I think in so many ways, one could feel comfortable to live here feeling like being at the center of the world. We do feel this way, living in New-York or Tokyo. It’s in the air. Anyhow, it is my second time staying in the city and I always am happily surprised each time around.

Segment: The abundance of YOU: (part 1)

The amazing work of history and the providence by which humanity has grown since the prehistoric ages leave me hopeful and sometimes I can’t help but think that something went wrong right at the beginning of man’s apparition as a spiritual being. If that did happen, it is probably the cause behind the misery that plagues the world in ignorance and confusion right at the inception of our first establishments of societies. Today we live in a world somewhat comfortable but that can’t be said of every place on the planet. One important thing history can teach us: we human beings, we can make a difference. I will not elaborate too much on this segment report here but I will keep on the subject soon, telling you that you can actually set for your own fate if you only knew the one truth no one can deny, but no one has thought as invaluable enough to be the only fulfilling path to a life of achievements, for all with no exceptions. (To be continued…)

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The day started with Tokyo’s morning sun and ended in Nagoya, in the caring atmosphere of Takuya and his wonderful friends. I love traveling outside Tokyo from time to time and it is always a peaceful time. There is not much to say, except listening to the sounds of what’s really happening around. Today, I had the chance to meet Naoko Hiraiwa with her adorable children and yes it was then also an adorable time. I retired into the hotel to prepare for an early morning ride back to Tokyo and it was truly another moment of reflection. I can see the future through the future of our membership in Japan, being a community of people that stands open to the discovering of the world through the eyes of the Marine Foundation. I hope that the doors for Japan will open the opportunities of so many good adventures and eventually the set up of events that will mean good to the country. The day was filled with the revelation of meeting Aya Miki, who wearing a Kimono so fitted to the season and occasion, brought the atmosphere to grace and peace, as always friends of Takuya seem to permanently create.

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This was a day like no other. I say that since it was a reflection of 30 years back into my life when I first came to Japan as a single man and pioneering my way through the land of the morning sun. Yes, through the spontaneous desire of Ayumi wanting to go to Kamakura, I just then decided to make it even better as to visiting my old friends in Fujisawa, which city I call my Japan birthplace. There are so many stories to tell but it would not want to take anyone’s time too much except, for now, showing you a few photos of people that I have known for over 30 years. It is not something I cannot describe in simple words but some of the stories back then are fun to hear.

My strategy in wanting to learn a new culture is to be in a place where I can meet those we do not usually see when on a trip abroad. So I decided to become homeless on the beaches of Kamakura and Fujisawa for a year and yes this is where I found my heaven in Japan. I was fed almost every day by old fishermen and grandmothers and I had a taste of meeting the warmest people in the world, like this family in Fujisawa who own this bar restaurant and live house. They still do to this day and the place has not changed. I remember playing the guitar there from time to time and the owner never charged me for food or drinks. Mr. Nishigai and his wife have never forgotten me and seeing me there after 30 years is really something. Today also some customers remembered me and yes that time became unforgettable. Fumiko a graduate of “Gedai” for example, back then, young and so beautiful used to help me write my music down on paper. She was there tonight, and wow, what a surprise. After my “One Year” experience, I became a successful consultant, always traveling between New York City where I had an apartment and Tokyo.

It was nice to introduce Ayumi wish whom I have had 2 children and just that got the laughter going in questions: “You, Tomeo, with children?” – and then the topic on the Marine Foundation, where I prefer not go into details and just saying I was involved with helping people through a foundation. But then, come to think of it, and to honor those who brought me up in this beautiful but back then strange country, I am deciding to open an Ocean Quarters right here in Fujisawa and yes the timing perfect if I can do that before 20/20 Olympics.

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It is never too late to do good in one day of each of our life. That is the challenge we each have for the moment we live, seeking happiness on a constant basis. You would tell me that people are not seeking comfort, health, and prosperity, then we would live in a world of no hope. Today I spent the day reflecting on how the Marine Foundation would really make a difference in the world and that is real question isn’t it?

Accordingly, with the chart of the project description, we do intend to serve the world with, there is indeed 3 element of great involvement that we cannot avoid. It is on the page of each co-brand owner introductory section: We all need “Economy, Comfort and Health”.

Here is how we describe these 3 elements:

Economy represents a bright education. Some might say “money” and they would think that economic development starts at someone’s decision to build a hotel or manufacture. But at the Marine Foundation, the development of education on the “bright” level is the most important to a developing region or even a very developed region that want to assure sustainability for thousands of year. We need reforms to turn was has become conventionally dark and turn it to something very bright for all. Therefore the Marine Foundation is introducing 5 new systems that will revolutionize everything you know about going to school or learning a skill.

Comfort represents good communication. People are used to thinking of comfort as something external such as living in good houses or driving beautiful cars. At the Marine Foundation, comfort is all about “communications” at all levels of what that word really means. That is why we need technologies enabling anyone to reach regardless of geographical location or social status. When we are in a zone of comfort through good relations and fast communications, we can then start developing the prospect of association and personal growth.

Health represents a clean environment. We all seek perfect individual health and that is the case for everyone, rich or poor. But the problem with human health is always connected to how the management of our environment and the industrial revolution we have seen through the last century has left hazardous marks all throughout the planet. At the Marine Foundation, the protection and enhancement of our environment through solutions that means for cleanness and order is very important. On top of that, the research in finding solutions for a complete resolves to sicknesses is also the organization’s agenda.

I use therefore the term to just be Bright, Good and Clean. This is where the whole philosophy of the Marine Foundation’s project development platform.  Economy, Comfort, and Heath are the 3 point axes on which a country will rise perfectly in sustainability that can last forever. One of these missing and everything falls apart.

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On Sunday the 13th of this month, I have the great opportunity to meet with Junko and Saori at “Oneness Cafe”, a concept well engineered to bring happiness to the neighborhood and certainly beyond. Today I spent time returning there, sharing more about the deeper lines of the Marine Foundation’s philosophy and philanthropy. It was a wonderful and meaningful time for me. Sometimes as I explain the system I am also learning through the inquisitive spirit of anyone asking, and the inspiration keeps flowing like rivers to the ocean. It never fells. Its interesting that when you have decided to live your life in the priority of others, the abundance of ideas that could to you can be staggeringly huge. It is almost like a never ending story and the universe we live is a perfect example of that. How long would it take to describe the abundance that surrounds us if we were to write just one book about it? It would be like building the “Notre Dame” Cathedral in Paris France, a sure 2o to 3 centuries of writings and assembling to brinks that makes it altogether a marvelous structure. Today I was inspired with giving this information to Junko and Saori, while Yoko patiently commenting and explaining. The day felt good. Giving is always good.