permaculture

["Kenkichi Muramatsu" <info@nexus-i.com>]

> This is our first post to this list, though we've been lurking for a
while, so first
 a little background on our situation:  We are Ken and Lisa Logan, and we
are expatriates living in Japan.  We've been here for a few years, and
dicovered permaculture about a year ago.  As a recent post said, our
chances for learning permaculture in Japan are almost nil, though I was
happy to hear that Bill Mollison will be coming here soon.  I doubt we can
make it to Tokyo to see him, however. :(

I have been practicing so-called Nature Farming for more than 20 
years. Currently, I am a staff of Nature Farming International
Research and Development Center (Non-Profit Japanese
Governmental Organization and Headquaters is located in 
Atami-city, Shizuoka, Japan) and am building information 
providing infrastructure by using Internetworking.

I have been studying Permaculture and recognized some 
importance issues.  I found that there are many similarities
between permaculture and Nature Farming.  In fact, Mr. 
Masanobu Fukuoka took many ideas from Mr. Mokichi Okada
who first started Nature Farming in 1935 and established
Nature Farming organization in Japan.

Nature Farming International Research and Development
Center has been studying the use of Effective Microorganisms 
(So-called EM which was developed by Dr. Teruo Higa, Prof. 
of Agriculture Dep. Ryukyu University in Okinawa) for more 
than 15 years.  Especially in Asia, many countries apply EM
to their farming and solve many problems.  We will make the 
updated report of EM in the meeting of IFOAM in Argentina.

Please let me know if any Permaculture event is planned in 
Japan.

Regards,

Kenkichi Muramatsu
info@nexus-i.com
nexus@saitama-j.or.jp