Whether you are talking about Ogimi village or any other Japanese blue zones, you are looking at people from the general public who happened to live long, they didn’t necessarily have the knowhow of longevity. When you study Japanese health and longevity, there is one element you need to include, that is the esoteric side of our culture seen in Japanese natural medicine or natural philosophy.
The eight factors behind the long lives of the people of Ogimi village apply to Nagano prefecture and Shiga prefecture, which are ranked high in the recent longevity ranking, as well.
Six Reasons Why Washoku is Healthy. Washoku has been registered as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, for the following characteristics.
Diversity and freshness of ingredients, and respect for their inherent flavors.
An exceptionally well-balanced and healthy diet.
An expression of natural beauty and the changing seasons.
Close links with annual events.
One of them is being a well-balanced and healthy diet. In that case, what aspects of Washoku are well-balanced and healthy?
The people in short-lived villages were eating a lot of white rice without vegetables and seaweed, what about the people in long-lived villages? They weren’t eating white rice. Then what were they eating instead?
What were the people in short-lived villages eating, according to Dr. Shoji Kondo the author of Nihon No Chojumura Tanmeimura, Long-Lived Villages and Short-Lived Villages in Japan, who spent 36 years traveling around the island, between 1935 and 1971, visiting 990 villages and towns to investigate the diets of each place?
There is a book that explains the whole situation of how the word Ikigai is misinterpreted outside Japan and spreading. Ikigai Demystified: Ikigai Is Not A Venn Diagram.
Dr. Shoji Kondo, the author of Nihon No Chojumura Tanmeimura, Long-Lived Villages and Short-Lived Villages in Japan, spent 36 years traveling around the island, between 1935 and 1971, visiting 990 villages and towns to investigate the diets of each place. He discovered that there were villages where many residents lived long and villages where many residents didn’t live long. He found out that there was a distinct difference between the diets of long-lived villages and short-lived villages.
What does Ikigai mean to the Japanese? Does the venn diagram represent Ikigai in Japan?
Well, I had never seen it until recently.
Although we had a splendid holiday in England, one thing we missed was our hot summer. While we were staying we couldn’t recall a single hot day in the entire month. Even the day which was said to be the hottest and the train stopped, for us it was like a comfortable spring day, sitting …
The joint struggle of opposition parties have managed to run a unified candidate for 32 electoral districts, and they have a much higher chance of winning this time. In Shiga Prefecture where I live, Yukiko Kada, a former governor is running as the unified candidate. She has been active in environmental issues including dams and she also met Satish Kumar and Helena Norberg-Hodge when they visited Shiga.
