The health of the Japanese people has changed enormously after the end of the second world war. The increase in lifestyle-derived disease cases is symbolically the most outstanding. Before the war, the biggest cause of death among Japanese was linked to contagious diseases, but today, cancer, heart disease, brain-vascular diseases, i.e. lifestyle-derived diseases, are at most the mortality rate. In addition, the sudden increase in the number of people heading towards these diseases has become a huge threat to the general population.

Although deaths from contagious diseases are declining, on the other hand, cases of new and powerful infectious diseases have never been experienced before, such as HIV/AIDS virus, Ebola virus and Avian Influenza, which are becoming new threats.

Where are the causes of this type of change and aggravation in the health of contemporary humans?

In particular, strong trends in which medical treatments and public health are fully attached to Western medicine by ignoring nature and treating diseases in a palliative way by attacking symptoms; the modernization of agriculture and food processing, the use of synthetic and agrochemical fertilizers based on mercantilism; contamination of food through food additives, in addition to the decrease in heavy lifting due to the modernization of the industry; lack of exercise due to the popularization of cars and electric household items, among others, all of these factors would have a major influence on the health of contemporary people.

​Therapist Yasuhiro Ohno