Molecular biology occupied the center stage during the last quarter of the 20th century, scientifically explaining to us the secret of the advent of life. As a result, we continue to be taken by surprising discoveries, breakthroughs, an bewildering problems such as the clone animals and DNH weapons with the use of genetic engineering technology. In my opinion, we are already crossing the threshold of a new era of the "scientific information technology." Mankind are entering into the 21st century in which we will be grappling with a dangerous double-edged sword of new scientific technologies, discovered as a result of our own curiosity to inquiry into the secret of life. We, at our Laboratory, are engaged in scientific research activities on select fishery and agricultural problems relating to our daily dietary life. Here again, genetic engineering technology plays the role of a double-edged sword, but this has more to do with our intermediate future, while there is a more pressing issue posing an immediate threat to all of us - the pollution and destruction of the earth environment by the excessive use of industrial chemicals in agriculture and fishery.

What was the Pitfall for the U.S. Agriculture?

One of the most symbolic, and as much real, examples is the issue of the widespread agricultural use of Methyl Bromide in the U.S., which has aroused a nationwide protest movement in the last decade of the 20th century giving rise to a national debate over the nation's agricultural policy direction of the next century. All started with the deadly effectiveness of methyl bromide as an insecticide in killing off all forms of life in the soil, spreading first among the strawberry growers in California, and then the tobacco growers of Tennessee and tomato fields in Florida, and eventually involving more than one hundred agricultural produces, embraced wholeheartedly as heavenly blessings to the farmers and their communities. Just to give an example, the California strawberry growers' per-acre yield used to be between 1 to 5 tons per season, but thanks to this deadly chemical, the production jumped up to 20 to 25 tons per acre. (See the picture to the right, 1996 Smithsonian Magazine)

This chemical, methyl bromide, has been touted in the industry as leaving no residues whatsoever in agricultural products, and therefore totally harmless to human beings, but the horrible fact had come out in the open later that the evaporated methyl bromide gas was rapidly destroying the ozone layer enveloping the earth. Once this horrible news broke out, it triggered such tide of nationwide popular opposition that the U.S. government finally came to terms declaring that the industrial production of methyl bromide shall be banned in the U.S. as of January 1, 2001. But, the fact remains that the U.S. farmers who have benefited from it so much in the past are now faced with the stern reality as well as the need to find an alternative means to keep "bugs" away from their fields.

Foot Note; The above account was taken from the full feature story that appeared in the 1996 Smithsonian Magazine.

The Remarkable Role of Our Information-Charged Memory Water

In the case of the Japanese agriculture with much more intensely cultivated fields than their U.S. counterparts, the use of chemicals is also in a sense greater than it is the case in most other countries. Thus, the salient characteristic of the overdose of chemicals in Japan usually gives rise to the harms done to human beings, and because of this, the organic farming free from any use of chemicals and their products are becoming increasingly popular among the consumers. The so-called "chemical-soaked" vegetables and fruits are not only harmful to the health of the Japanese people, but, more importantly, pollute the irrigation water which pours eventually into the rivers and the ocean spreading throughout the world, starting up the food chain, and again destined to end up on our dinner tables as seafood delicacies with heavy concentration of the pollutants.

In the meantime, the insects, and especially microbes and viruses infesting fish and plant life, are becoming more and more immune to the chemicals used to control them, and, in turn, human beings renew their effort to develop more potent chemicals in an never ending vicious circle. To make matters worse, moreover, while we can work only for certain hours a day, the bacteria and viruses will be striving around the clock to develop their ability to resist new chemicals. In fact, the primary objective of the scientific information technology developed at our Laboratory is precisely to put an end to this vicious circle in the most fundamental sense by replacing the use of all chemicals with the application and injection of harmless information.

Since the initial experiments we conducted a few years ago, we have come a long way today already in the thick of the developmental tests for commercial application involving the virus-stricken shrimp farms and disease-laden potato fields producing dramatic results in a number of cases. In both cases, it has been proven beyond any doubt that our information technology have completely displaced the chemicals used in the past, and, on top of all this, contributing significantly to the increased production with higher quality. This has been constantly and repeatedly proven in all of the commercial-scale field tests.