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| - | '''George Ohsawa''', born (October 18, 1893 – April 23, 1966), was the founder of the [[macrobiotic diet]]. When living in Europe he went by the pen names of '''Musagendo Sakurazawa''', '''Nyoiti Sakurazawa''', and '''Yukikazu Sakurazawa'''. He also used the French first name '''Georges''' while living in France, and his name is sometimes also given this spelling. He wrote about 300 books in Japanese and 20 in French. He defined health on the basis of seven criteria: lack of fatigue, good appetite, good sleep, good memory, good humour, precision of thought and action, and gratitude. | + | The '''Cuban Missile Crisis''', also known as the '''October Crisis of 1962''' ({{lang-es|link=no|Crisis de Octubre}}), the '''Caribbean Crisis''' ({{Lang-rus|Карибский кризис|Karibsky krizis|kɐˈrʲipskʲɪj ˈkrʲizʲɪs}}), or the '''Missile Scare,''' was a 13-day (October 16–28, 1962) confrontation between the [[United States]] and the [[Soviet Union]] concerning American [[ballistic missile]] deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in [[Cuba]]. The confrontation is often considered [[List of nuclear close calls|the closest]] the [[Cold War]] came to escalating into a full-scale [[Nuclear warfare|nuclear war]]. |
| - | ==Life== | + | |
| - | Ohsawa was born into a poor [[samurai]] family in Shingu City, Wakayama Prefecture. He had no money for higher education. Around 1913, he joined the [[Shoku-yo Kai]] movement, studying with Manabu Nishibata, a direct disciple of the late [[Sagen Ishizuka]], in [[Tokyo]]. [[William Dufty]] describes the background ("Nyoiti" is a variant transcription of "Nyoichi"): | + | |
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| - | <blockquote>The gradual introduction of [[sugar]] into the Japanese diet brought in its wake the beginning of Western diseases. A Japanese [[midwife]], trained in the techniques of Western medicine as a nurse, fell ill and was abandoned as incurable by the Western doctors she had espoused. Three of her children died the same way. The fourth, Nyoiti Sakurazawa, rebelled at the notion of dying of tuberculosis and ulcers in his teens. He took up the study of ancient Oriental medicine which had been officially outlawed in Japan. Sakurazawa was attracted to the unorthodox career of a famous Japanese practitioner, Dr. Sagen Ishizuka. Thousands of patients had been cured by Ishizuka (through traditional use of food) after they had been abandoned as incurable by the new medicine of the West.</blockquote> | + | |
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| - | Ohsawa writes in his books that he cured himself of [[tuberculosis]] at the age of 19 by applying the ancient Chinese concept of [[yin and yang]] as well as the teachings of Sagen Ishizuka. | + | |
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| - | Later he traveled in [[Europe]] and began to spread his philosophy in [[Paris]]. It was in this period that he adopted his pen name "Ohsawa", supposedly from the French ''Oh, ça va'', which means "All right" or "I'm doing fine" as a reply to the question "how are you doing?"). After several years, he returned to Japan to start a foundation and gather recruits for his now formalized philosophy. In 1931, he published ''The Unique Principle'' explaining the yin and yang order of the universe. | + | |
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| - | After drawing attention during [[World War II]] for his pacifist ideals, he wrote a book that predicted Japan's defeat and was incarcerated, narrowly escaping death. After being freed from prison by U.S. General McArthur, he moved his institution to a remote area in the mountains of [[Yamanashi Prefecture]]. | + | |
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| - | It is presumed that he got the Western name for his movement from a book written by [[Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland]], a Prussian physician. It is known that Ohsawa spent time in Europe with a descendant of Hufeland. | + | |
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| - | While he was in France Ohsawa wrote a number of books in French, which were published by Vrin Publishers in Paris. Among them were ''L'Ere Atomique'' (The Atomic Age), written during the [[Cuban Missile Crisis]]. In this book, as in all the books Ohsawa wrote, he devoted considerable space to explaining how macrobiotics can shed light on many social problems as well as the causes of war, and help bring about a world in which war will be seen as an outcome of an error of judgment, and discarded as an effective solution to social conflict. | + | |
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| - | Ohsawa also created a stir by predicting the deaths of several notable people, including [[John F. Kennedy]] based on the condition known in Japan as "[[sanpaku]]" (literally "three empty"), a traditional Japanese [[Physiognomy|physiognomic]] diagnosis in which a white area below as well as to each side of the [[Iris (anatomy)|iris]] appears when the eye is viewed straight on. This anomaly was considered a sign of extreme fatigue that made one accident-prone and slow to react. Samurai were trained to watch for this feature to assist in determining how formidable an enemy would be in hand-to-hand combat. Sakurazawa Nyoichi used this diagnosis in his teachings and Ohsawa adapted it as a more general diagnostic indication of one's general state of health. The assassination of President Kennedy led [[Tom Wolfe]] to write: | + | |
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| - | <blockquote>[[Abdul-Karim Qassem|Abdul Karim Kassem]], [[Ngo Dinh Diem]], and President Kennedy, all ''sanpaku'' and, now, shot to death, all destroyed by the fate of the sanpaku, which is more than coincidence and should be an alarm signal to men and nations, say the Macrobiotics, for thus it has been demonstrated by their leader, George Ohsawa, Japanese prophet of the Unique Principle.</blockquote> | + | |
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| - | This article caught the attention of [[William Dufty]], who, finding relief in the [[brown rice]] diet recommended by Ohsawa, became an advocate of macrobiotics, and traveled to Paris to meet with Ohsawa and publisher [[Felix Morrow]]. Ohsawa handed Dufty a package, and said, "Here is a lifetime of writing. Do your best with them. It's your turn." In 1965 Morrow's firm, University Books, published Ohsawa's writings under the provocative title ''You Are All Sanpaku''. | + | |
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| - | Ohsawa died of a heart attack at the age of 74. | + | |
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| - | ==Books== | + | |
| - | The following bibliography of the writings of George Ohsawa is from page 218 of ''You Are All Sanpaku'': | + | |
| - | * 1931: ''Le Principe unique de la philosophie et de la science d’Extrême-Orient'', Paris : Vrin. | + | |
| - | * 1932: ''Le livre des fleurs'', Paris : Plon. | + | |
| - | * 1952: ''Le livre du Judo'', Tokyo : Sekai Seihu. | + | |
| - | * 1954: [https://books.google.ca/books?id=YSQdAAAAMAAJ ''The Two Great Indians in Japan, Sri Rash Benhari Bose and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose''], India: Sri K. C. Das. | + | |
| - | * 1956: ''Jack et Madame Mitie'' (Deux Erewhoniens dans la Jungle dire "Civilization"), Paris: E.D. | + | |
| - | * 1956 : ''La Philosophie de la Medecin d’Extreme Orient'', Paris : Vrin. | + | |
| - | * 1961 : ''Zen Macrobiotique'', Bruxelles : I.D.M.. | + | |
| - | * 1961 : ''Acupuncture Macrobiotique'', Paris : Sesam. | + | |
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| - | '''Translations by Ohsawa''' | + | |
| - | * T. Nakayama (1934): ''Acupuncture et médecine chinoise vérifiées au Japon'', Paris : Le Francois. | + | |
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| - | ===Japanese works=== | + | |
| - | * ''Macrobiotics'' | + | |
| - | * ''History of China From 2000 B.C. Until Today'' | + | |
| - | * ''Franklin: A physiological and biological biography'' | + | |
| - | * ''Gandhi: A physiological and biological biography'' | + | |
| - | * ''Clara Schumann and Her Father: A physiological and biological Study'' | + | |
| - | * Translation and critique: ''The Encounter Between East and West'' by F. S. C. Northrup | + | |
| - | * Translation and critique: ''Man the Unknown'' by Alexis Carrell | + | |
| - | * ''The Fatality of Science'' | + | |
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| ==See also== | ==See also== | ||
| - | * [[Japanese resistance to the Empire of Japan in World War II]] | + | * [[Bomber gap]] |
| - | * [[Macrobiotic diet]] | + | * [[Cuba–Soviet Union relations]] |
| - | * [[Wheat gluten (food)]] | + | * [[Leninsky Komsomol class cargo ships]] |
| - | * [[Timeline of Eastern philosophers]] | + | * [[List of nuclear close calls]] |
| - | * [[Health food store]] | + | * [[Mutual assured destruction]] |
| - | * [[Erewhon Organic Cereal]] | + | * [[Norwegian rocket incident]] |
| - | * [[Yin and yang ]] | + | * [[Nuclear disarmament]] |
| - | * [[Sugar Blues]] | + | * [[Nuclear warfare]] |
| - | * [[Sanpaku]] | + | * [[Nuclear weapon]] |
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The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962 (Template:Lang-es), the Caribbean Crisis (Template:Lang-rus), or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day (October 16–28, 1962) confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. The confrontation is often considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war.
See also
- Bomber gap
- Cuba–Soviet Union relations
- Leninsky Komsomol class cargo ships
- List of nuclear close calls
- Mutual assured destruction
- Norwegian rocket incident
- Nuclear disarmament
- Nuclear warfare
- Nuclear weapon
- Soviet Navy
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