Learning from the virus - Hafurimeku on April 14th

Lecturer: Kenji Nanasawa, Representative Director of General Incorporated Association Shirakawa Gakkan
Editor: Parole Editorial Section, Yasushi Ohno, supervisor

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Every morning, Kenji Nanasawa, Representative Director, gives a lecture to group companies and members of Shirakawa Gakkan, a general incorporated association he serves as representative director, primarily by answering questions from staff.

The content of the lectures, titled “Hafurimeku”, is distributed through e-mail and other media. Now we are making the summary also available in Parole for a limited period of time.

Kenji Nanasawa’s talks are about a variety of topics, from scientific fields, such as the origins of the universe, to current affairs and personal questions.

Now, please enjoy the first summary of Hafurimeku by Director Nanasawa.

Q:
There are now a number of critical opinions on the Internet about the government’s response to the new coronavirus and how the health care system should function. I would like to hear your thoughts on this.

A:
People who are anxious about the current situation are expressing painful and sad feelings. I rarely react to the negative comments or expressions that I see on the Internet. I believe they are just expressing the painful feelings and thoughts they have.

Since coronavirus can mutate in the process of transmission from person to person, the countermeasures are never easy. So it can be called “perverse virus”.

Because of these unidentified characteristics, information mixing the positive and the negative is often reported as fake news.

On the other hand, the virus also leads to considerable benefits, such as the manifestation of human resources. Humans must now be aware of that.

The spread of this virus is a tremendous challenge, but the current situation has forced economic, medical, and military change quickly and significantly. That is also evident throughout the history of human epidemics.

In short, it is better to deal with this disaster from the perspective of learning from the virus.

The first question that comes to mind is the question of ethics. It is about how we live better as humans, without shame.

Society is riddled up with problems, such as medical care, the economy, and military issues. Ultimately, if we cannot find an answer to the question of “how do I live as a person?”, and find a universal way of life that serves as a common guideline for all humans, the bursting point will come sooner rather than later.

In the midst of these circumstances, last year, we established a system capable of digitally disseminating texts intended to counteract all the diseases we covered. We have already set up a project that uses this system to turn all disease away from humans.

We have also incorporated the wisdom of Greek philosophy to a level where it can be truly useful in practical matters, rather than as a mere formula. This effort has been integrated in the form of concepts, devices, and matter. We feel that it is time to introduce the achievements of this long-standing research to the world.

How do we manage the vociferous complaints of people worldwide who are experiencing tremendous suffering? It is our mission to give an answer to that.

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Kenji Nanasawa
Born in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture in 1947. After graduating from Waseda University, he completed a Doctoral Program in the Graduate School of Letters at Taisho University. He developed an information processing system based on knowledge modeling of traditional medicine and philosophies and is a researcher of religious studies. He is involved in developing a next-generation system for digitizing language energies. Mr. Nanasawa re-established the Shirakawa Gakkan as a research institute for the study of the court rituals and ceremonies carried out by the Shirakawa family of Kyoto, a noble family that oversaw the Jingi, an office for religious rituals, for 800 years from the mid- Heian period to the end of the Tokugawa shogunate. He currently serves as the representative director of Shirakawa Gakkan and CEO of the Nanasawa Institute, among other positions.

He has written and served as the editorial supervisor for a number of books, among them Why Do Things Go Well with Japanese? Knowledge Modeling Inherent in Japanese Language and Culture (Naze nihonjin wa umakuikunoka? Nihongo to nihon bunka ni naizai sareta chishiki moshikika gijutsu) (Bungeisha). Also, he is the supervising editor of Three Works on the Study of Hebrew from a Shinto Perspective (Shinto kara mita heburai kenkyu sanbusho) (by Koji Ogasawara), and co-author with Koji Ogasawara of Princess Otohime of the Dragon Palace and Urashima Taro (Ryugu no Otohime to Urashima Taro).