~LETTER FROM THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF JAPAN~
The Ainu are the Indigenous People of Japan. In 2004, over 6000 Japanese participated in WPPD at Mt Fugi. One of our staff Misa sent us this message from the Ainu, we feel the world needs to know their thoughts of what is happening and realize we will also be affected.
This is why we Unite Spiritually!Dear friends,I received a message from Koji Yuki, one of the young Ainu (Indigenous people of Japan, based in Hokkaido) leader, who is also a very good friend of mine. He is the leader of a performance group,Ainu Art Project, he is a woodblock artist and an activist. He is sending this message out from Hokkaido, in response to the earthquake and subsequent nuclear accident that happened in Japan. I would appreciate if you could share this message with people who may be interested.Misa Honde
**********************************MESSAGE FROM KOJI YUKI - AINU NATION OF JAPAN*****************************Dear brothers and sisters of this beautiful planet,Today the land that we live on, Japan,is faced with a great calamity.As people who worship the gods of nature,we grieve that the huge forces of nature have snatched away many people¹s lives.We are praying every day to calm nature¹s anger.From the midst of those prayers,we have received a visionof a new era of great kindness that begins with helping one another and acquiring new awareness an era to rethink our self-interest.