A Rambling Journey to Japan
Japan’s Hidden Culture, History, Myths, and Untold Stories
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Ancestral Healing | Blog | Culture | History
Hi Fu Mi: Primordial Sounds of the Cosmos
Introduction For the last 20 years since I left Japan, I have almost exclusively used English to think and communicate. I was not educated on the importance and significance of my…
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Area Guide | Blog | Culture | History
Tokushima Prefecture 徳島県: Untamed and Wild Spirit of Shikoku
Introduction Tokushima Prefecture, an eastern coast gateway to Shikoku Island from Honshū main island, boasts some of Japan’s most dramatic and diverse natural landscapes. From the mesmerizing Naruto whirlpools—one of the…
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Area Guide | Blog | Culture
Kagawa Prefecture 香川県: Japan’s Pocket-sized Wonder
Introduction To be honest with you, as someone who grew up in metropolitan Tokyo and never really went out to the different parts of my own country Japan, Shikoku island and…
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Ancestral Healing | Blog | Culture | History
The Lunisolar Calendar—Forgotten Rhythm with Nature: Unveiling What GHQ Feared and Erased from Japan Part 7 and Final Words
Introduction I have been on this rambling journey to explore what Japan has lost because of post-war GHQ occupational forces, and now we are on the final leg of this journey….
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Ancestral Healing | Blog | Culture | History
Original Language: Unveiling What GHQ Feared and Erased from Japan Part 6
Introduction For the last 5 posts (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5), I’ve been discussing 5 elements in the Shinto offering that were systematically targeted and…
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Ancestral Healing | Blog | Culture | History
Hemp Cultivation: Unveiling What GHQ Feared and Erased From Japan Part 5
Introduction In the last ramble of this GHQ series, I wrote about Japan’s life-giving spring water and how she faced danger during the postwar occupation by GHQ. In this post, we…
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Ancestral Healing | Blog | Culture | History
Spring Water: Unveiling What GHQ Feared and Erased from Japan Part 4
Introduction In the last post of this GHQ series, I explored how Japanese people were under the salt-starve spell for 26 years. Natural sea salt is, it turns out, an essential…
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Ancestral Healing | Blog | Culture | History
Natural Sea Salt: Unveiling What GHQ Feared and Erased From Japan Part 3
Introduction In the last post of this series, I wrote about the second item on the Shinto offerings and also an integral part of Japanese traditional peacemaking—the sake craft culture. In…
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Ancestral Healing | Blog | Culture | History
Kuchikami Sake: Unveiling What GHQ Feared and Erased Part 2
Introduction In the last post, we began exploring what GHQ, or I should say the particular force in the world that wants to control and dominate by extraction of value from…
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Sacred Rice: Unveiling What GHQ Feared and Erased Part 1
Introduction In the last post, I wrote how GHQ discovered the secrets to Japanese strength and prosperity. Fearing them, GHQ set out to destroy these elements that provided Japanese people with…
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Ancestral Healing | Blog | Culture | History
Tainted Rising Sun: Cultural Assassination by GHQ
Introduction Growing up in Japan during the 80s and 90s, I always felt an unshakable sense of something missing—like the Tokyo life surrounding me wasn’t the full picture, as if a…
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From Kool-Aid to Green Tea: Tales of My Cult Childhood
Introduction I was typing about Shinto’s history, reflecting how its noble origin has shaped Japanese culture since ancient times. Then a distant memory bubbled up: I was 5 or 6, standing…
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Hi! I’m Nori,
a girl from Tokyo who’s made America her home for the last 20 years.
Through my ancestral trauma healing, I started to change my view toward my motherland Japan and her culture from intense aversion to deep love.
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