I visited India for about half a month for the first time using a long vacation on the verge of retiring. In returning to Japan from India, I passed through Boso peninsula in Japan by the airplane according to schedule and was able to get a view of orderly laid out rice paddies in Chiba prefecture just before I arrived at Narita airport. A partition of rice paddy in India is also from one thousand to three thousands square meter like Japan but the shape of partition is divided by a curved line more than by a straight line. Such an order in Japan, the land where a hundred million people can act social metabolism efficiently and Japan blessed with rich water and rich green. On the other hand, vast India such as desert, Deccan Plateau, the fertile land in a large river like Ganges. And India in that red clay, squall, rickshaw, bustle, and overlapping slums.
Thus, such a space of India too far
different from Japan has clearly burnt into my mind oppositely as the airplane
approached Narita. This order, brightness, and cleanness in the lobby in Narita
Airport were absolutely few things in India. It was also so in orderliness of
the station and in the comfort of train.
I was surprised again when I came
home. The front door, the living room and my study room looked like very
strange though I was leaving my house only during half a month. I felt even
dizziness somehow. The personal computer was put. The air conditioner was set
up. The road of the outside of the window was paved cleanly. Everything was
neatly arranged. Everything was in a clean space. It was too quite different
from the space of India.
I visited India again for half a month two years later. However, when returning home, I was not able to have a deep emotion like the first time. It may be because the difference between Japan and India has already been made as a diagram in my mind. Still, the gesture and look of people whom I met in India revive always vividly to my mind. Those were not the eyes which are shut in society or in organization. Those gave off brightness which seemed natural, free and spiritual, a little more. They seemed to interact with more things which we did not know, there.
I carried pamphlets translated into English at the second visit to India and I distributed them to people of South India. That was the pamphlet showing what I thought in the mountain hut called ‘TARANOME-ANN’. So, I would like you to read the pamphlet, ‘The letter from TARANOME-ANN’ here too.
I'll be 63 years old soon. Will the time that is left for me be about 20 years? I have no feeling that I overestimate myself about what I can do in 20 years more. I will live abstaining moderately without going against natural life and may just reach death. However, the world has expanded so much. Economy and information have been globalized and a similar pattern has come to be repeated anywhere all over the world under the name of democracy. When I see such a situation, I sometimes think that it may not be good if this situation continues more. Emptiness drifts in a lot of people's life in advanced states. Conflicts and poverty still seem to coexist in developing countries in Africa, Asia, and South America, etc. as usual. In such a situation, I thought I might be able to speak something which I have learned in India in spite of my poor ability. So, I decided to start up this homepage. (19/07/2011 Kunio Oki)
＊We have proposed IOM PROPOSAL as a fundamental reform about UN.
We expect our
Proposal will permeate people's minds in the world step by step
though our voices are small
now. (22/05/2017)
＊Since August 1, 2018, our IOM Proposal has evolved as an IOMR Proposal with the addition of a new member. Please refer to Mr.Iyer's following comment.
The evolution of IOM Proposal to IOMR Proposal (28/08/2018)
＊I have finished the explanation about Mahabharata for young generations.
Please read it. (24/08/2019)
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＊I've added My Instagram , and My photos became viewable easily. (19/02/2017)
TARANOME-ANN is a log cabin. It took five years for us to build that from 1985. It is situated on a hill summit of pasture site in Chonan town of Chiba prefecture. As you see, TARANOME-ANN has been ruined by termites considerably, but I manage to maintain this log cabin by the repair with full of patchwork somehow. The activity here is introduced also by ‘The letter from TARANOME-ANN’ a little. If you have interest in a log house, please drop in here. Deserted houses are outstanding in the pasture site, and there is nothing special around TARANOME-ANN, but there is a good quiet place with a splendid view here.
