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Make Your Intrinsic Qualities Bloom
A legendary instructor──participants of his training classes call him so. The depth of content he teaches and the beauty of his movements are still deeply engraved in the minds of many people. This instructor is Mr. Kanji Nakata.
Mr. Nakata was born in the year Showa 35 (1960) in Osaka Prefecture. After graduating the School of Economics of Osaka University, he entered Daiei, where he was in charge of training in the Education Department. This had decided the direction of his life. He was attracted by the significance and appeal of human resources education, and changed his job to work for a large-scale training company, aiming at becoming a training instructor. It was when he was 27.
He stepped up tremendous efforts. Days of smooth sailing waited ahead. In his 4th year in the company, he won the Best Employee Award. In his 6th year, he became a manager supervising several instructors. He married Ms. Right and had kids.
Things went wrong in the year Heisei 8 (1996). He developed acute myeloid leukemia. He struggled with the disease for 4 months. Anticancer drug treatment was effective, and he was discharged in February next year. He relished the happiness of being with his family.
However, the peaceful days didn’t last long. On January 1 of the year Heisei 10 (1998), Mr. Nakata’s elder brother forced him to go to hospital, assuming something was wrong with him. Then a new disease was found. He was suffering from a brain tumor. He was immediately hospitalized and received a craniotomy procedure. Fortunately, the operation was successful. However, the pleasure didn’t last long. The leukemia recurred. This time, the treatment was effective again, and he was discharged in July of that year.
Nevertheless, destiny continued to give him even tougher ordeals.
After 1 month from being discharged, he happened to wake up early in the morning to find that he could not see out of his right eye. He received radiation therapy but it was not effective. Eventually he lost his vision in his left eye as well. Mr. Nakata became completely blind.
However, many people adored his character and asked for receiving his training, even in such a state. With the support from people whom Mr. Nakata called “people like God”, he continued working as an instructor.
After finishing his first training class since becoming completely blind, the managing director of the company that received his training said to him, “I have received and also held various training classes so far, but I have never encountered any training like yours. Your training is the best I have experienced.” This comment gave confidence to Mr. Nakata, and became the source of his activities afterwards.
Amid such days, his leukemia recurred once again. It was in January of the year Heisei 16 (2004).
“I can’t describe the feeling upon then with words. The shock was so tremendous that I felt like giving up my life.”
Yet, being encouraged by amazing supporters, Mr. Nakata started to powerfully walk his way again. It was then that our magazine featured him.
What matters for flowers is fragrance. What matters for people is personality. He was a kind of person who reminded me with these words. His struggle with the diseases that inflicted him refined his character as if it were shining.
Mr. Nakata suddenly passed away in August this year. While bathing, he collapsed face down in the bath tub, due to a stroke caused by the aftereffect of the brain tumor. Everything happened in just about 10 minutes. We suffer a real loss. Our sadness is endless.
“Tenshin”, or intrinsic qualities, is the world of Mr. Shinzo Mori in “Shushin-kyoju-roku*”. I interpret its meaning as the truth that Heaven gave to the person alone.
Mr. Nakata is exactly the person who lived his life by making his intrinsic qualities fully bloom.
He used to say with belief, “The spread of your magazine, ‘Chichi’, is sure to make Japanese people happy.” I sincerely pray for this soul mate. May he rest in peace.
*Shushin-kyoju-roku” is a book containing lectures on life delivered by an unparalleled educator Mr. Shinzo Mori.
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