1st June 2013

 

Reunion

 

Having met again with Ethiopian friends I enjoyed a great time at heart. They visited Japan accompanying the prime minister of Ethiopia to participate in the African forum. It was a rather sudden visit and I was told that their schedule was not made open as they were travelling on a special chartered airplane. I was extremely glad as this time we had the opportunity to meet each other. I considered this as a good sign for new movements. Now was the time, while the activities of NPO KOMA were started from an international concert project in Ethiopia in the year 2001. We overcame many obstacles and held it successfully with as many as 110,000 spectators and globally broadcast it live by satellite television and internet streaming. And today to my gratitude and joy I was told that Ethiopian people who had participated in the concert knew that our concert had realized a great change in the future direction of Ethiopia and that now they were in need of the Idaki counseling courses and another major concert to change people’s mentality. I was impressed with their beautiful eyes and felt extremely happy as we could share our heart. I truly felt that this was a human being. A conversation with a person who was honest and sincere at heart made me realize the joy of being alive and filled with warmth at heart.
After the dinner as we asked them whether they preferred coffee or tea, everybody said tea, with a rather complicated smiling face, that they could not mix the wonderful flavor of coffee at our coffee shop, and that as they were always drinking authentic coffee from origin, they could not drink coffee at a hotel and restaurant in Japan. After a long absence I recalled the sensation of talking with people who knew the truth. In reality people who knew the truth had beautiful eyes and impressed my heart.
They also told me that our prime minister, Mr. Abe, came to love Ethiopian coffee. I had started our coffee business as we were asked by Ethiopian people to promote their delicious products as they were. I wished its delicious taste would diffuse smiling faces all over. I truly enjoyed and became hopeful at today’s meeting that paved a way for a marvelous future.