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Hafa Adai,
Johnny H of 66Degrees has started his adventure with us witht he FokaiSocal Project. fron sniper antic photoshoots at MMA events to family gatherings@Und1sputed…he has sharpened his perspective and drive to executively produce two full seasons of 66degrees, a Guam Modern Lifestyle depiction.

A bit risky and definitely out of the box…Props and Respect goes to one of our Guam film makers for going above and beyond for theatre and enetertainment.

Raw Meat is a comedy film that tells the story of  entertainer “J HO” and his quest to prove himself worth of a group of party entertainers called”RAW MEAT”, headed by the character “G FO”; another addition to the film is rogue entertainer “D BABY” . In the film, G FO runs Guam’s party scene and people pay him “good money for a good show”.

The film’s tagline reads ”Yu’re Not Ready Till Yu’re Raw!” This means that in order to get into RAW MEAT you need to have the “raw” attitude, described by filmmaker Cory Caso (aka ‘Johnny H’) as an attitude that says ”I’m showtime, right here! Im gonna own this moment, do my own thing, and you all enjoy!”

FokaiElements:Earth

May TheForce Be With You

Hafa Adai,

The whole venture of maintaining this blog has been a bit difficult. No Excuses. just poor focus and ethic into this venture. Evensayingthat however… youre support has been, is, and always will be appreciated.

This blog was primarily created to “Open a Window into the Heartbeat of FokaiInternational”. We wanted to keep our viewers connected to the people, places, and events that weve been closely involved with over the years.We have been involved in non-profit activity consistently in Guam, Japan, California, and Ireland ..Then things were shifted so that the blog would be more focused on merchandise  detail:  though we’ve made mistakes–there is constant evolution in product development. were taking extra steps in sourcing the materials and skillset to provide life-proven product…and then we really wanted to emphasize a good news blog that wanted to remind our internationally growing support base that there is collectively and individually a good and noble effort in the world to make a positvie difference. It’s a collective  effort , A FORCE, that is multiplied by bridges and not divided by  boundaries.

Too often we’re magnetized to the excitement of bombs exploding, heads severed, celebrity mishaps, and serial killers; we’re standing by on excitement to watch man against man and country versus country…we need to motivate ourselves more often with good things that bring  faith  and faith which  brings hope…for a fast-evolving global mindset that could always use it.

With an intended backdrop of Mariana Island fighter archives and achievement as well as multi-faceted Moment defining photos and videos…we were aiming to give you further insight into the energy we came to accumulate as “FokaiIndustries” and an movement labeled as “FokaiIneternational

All of which weve given a decent effort but, considering  all the details of merchandise, individuals, and good tidings weve failed to archive/ and of goals we’ve failed to achieve—without doubt we’ve  fallen tremendously short.

Again , were trying to make another effort.

So we’re here today, on December 8th..not to fix everything all at once. but to thank you all for your long time support and patience, ant to reiiterate that we’re still on deck to do our part and connect all dots for positive things in an  effort worthwhile for mankind.

Fokai&GoodVibrations.

Thanks for dropping by.

TheForce&PopeFrances:Huffingpost.com

A recent interview with Archbishop Konrad Krajewski, the “Almoner of His Holiness,” raised speculation that the Pope joins him on his nightly trips into Rome to give alms to the poor, and it turns out that the rumors are probably true.

A knowledgable source in Rome told The Huffington Post that “Swiss guards confirmed that the pope has ventured out at night, dressed as a regular priest, to meet with homeless men and women.”

Krajewski earlier said, “When I say to him ‘I’m going out into the city this evening’, there’s the constant risk that he will come with me,” and he merely smiled and ducked the question when reporters asked him point-blank whether the Pope accompanied him into the city.

He’s not the only Pope known for nocturnal wanderings. There are stories of Pope John XIII sneaking out to enjoy the beauty of Rome in the evenings, and reports tell of Pope Pius XII dressing as a Franciscan during WWII to help smuggle Rome’s Jewish population to safety. More recently, Pope Benedict XVI popped out unannounced to visit an art exhibit.

When Pope Francis was Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, he was known to sneak out at night to break bread with the homeless, sitting with them on the street and eating with them to show that they were loved.

And we love him for doing it now.

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The New Journey for Enson Inoue (Part Two)

By Tommy Hackett on October 29, 2013
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The New Journey for Enson Inoue (Part Two)

(Please click here to read part one of The New Journey For Enson Inoue, detailing Inoue’s walking pilgrimage across the length of Japan to raise awareness for victims of the 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster. Today, in Part Two, we meet the two longtime friends of Inoue who are joining him on his more than 1500 mile long walk.)

Roman Dela Cruz left his home in Guam to begin the pilgrimage with Inoue last month. One might expect the founder of clothing brand Fokai to sound exhausted after a 45 day trek of over 500 miles, but he’s not — like Inoue, he’s too energetic and excited for what’s to come. He’s focused on the mission for Japan: what he calls “a lifetime experience.”

Inoue and Dela Cruz’s lives have been connected for many years. It was in 1999 when Inoue first visited Guam, accompanying one of his students to a MMA bout for the Superbrawl promotion. The two met at the arena, and became fast friends who would visit and support one another in years to come. Inoue’s Purebred network of martial arts academies would eventually establish a base in Guam, and Dela Cruz’s Fokai would open a retail shop in Japan.

Dela Cruz describes a deep sense of obligation to the people of Japan, and also refers to the pilgrimage as a matter of great personal growth.

“It’s been magical,” he says. “I’m happy if I can have some service to the people of Japan. This has been about my 50th trip to Japan and Japan has been very good to me. I think is my opportunity to do some good for Japan.”

Asked about the toil of day after day walking, Dela Cruz echoes his clothing line’s familiar slogan, or, what he calls the creed: exhaust the body, proceed the mind, cultivate the spirit. “The breaking down of the body actually becomes a good thing,” he says. “You work your way through it, and you wake up – mentally and spiritually.”

“What better way to experience Japan but in slow motion?” he asks. “We’re sleeping in a new place every day. It’s one hundred surprises a day.”
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Fowler, Inoue, and Dela Cruz pose for a picture on the way to Kyoto.

Joining Inoue and Dela Cruz is Michael Fowler, a highly decorated Brazilian jiu-jitsu competitor originally from Virginia, now based in Hawaii.

Fowler has been friends with Inoue and Dela Cruz for years. In fact, Fowler once served as head instructor at the academy Inoue established in Guam.

Fowler eventually founded an academy of his own, in the North Shore area of Oahu — where his children’s classes became a community fixture.

An ideal of service seems to be motivating him here as well.

“If I can be of any service and draw more attention to this cause,” Fowler says, “that’s something I’m really thankful that I’m able to do.”

Like Dela Cruz, Fowler seems to find his own benefit to the long walk as well. As personal problems developed in Fowler’s life, he joined Inoue and Dela Cruz earlier this month.

“It was the first time in my life I felt… scrambled,” Fowler recalls. “I didn’t know what to do. I was in communication with Enson at the time. I asked, where he was going to be Thursday, and he said Tokyo. The flight from Honolulu into Haneda in Tokyo was scheduled perfectly. It was meant to be.”

“On the North Shore,” he continues, “I’m not going to saying I’m a big deal, but you could say I’m kind of high-profile. I felt like I was in a fishbowl: everyone’s looking at me. I had to get out of there and get my thoughts straight. What better way to get myself together than to help with this walk?”

Fowler had taken many trips to Japan, but was always situated in Enson’s home base in the Tokyo area.

“Tokyo is cool,” he says, “but it’s very on-the-go and very busy. It was more about fun and having a good time. This is a grind. I definitely appreciate Japan a lot more, seeing the country. Granted my family has no history of being samurai! But, I respect that tradition a lot.”

“If you do Brazilian jiu-jitsu, they say you have to go to Brazil,” he continues. “I feel you have to go to Japan too, to experience the martial arts tradition. The samurai tradition.”

Like Inoue, Fowler seems awed by the reaction to the pilgrimage. “People are cheering you on, just for walking. It’s powerful for sure. Very positive response from people we don’t know. That’s really the goal, to let people know, people are still suffering there.”

What’s clear speaking to the three, is their sense of brotherhood as well as their love for Japan. Maybe it’s the spirit that Inoue was said to have brought back to Japan guiding them, too: Yamato Damashii.

Dela Cruz sums it up: “It’s been a long prayer for Japan, it’s an examination of the creed, and it’s a study in Yamato Damashii. That’s what this is.”

(Photography is courtesy Enson Inoue’s Facebook page. You can follow his trek there or at his blog.)

Calm Before the Storm:10/25/13

So it seems we’ve made it through Sekigahara okay. Outside of Mike’s temporary sleep paralysis nd a 10:08 check at the SekigaharaMuseum, apparently we were able to pass through safely without any supernatural encounters  with the afterlife…or so we think.

It should be mentioned though, that the 200,000 plus Samurai picked quite a place to stage Japan’s bloodiest and most significant battle. The landscape is pretty amazing– a site fittingly proper for such an epic duel. and an atmosphere hopefully absorbed as glorious for those that venture towards it to pay Respects.

We just finished a 35K walk mostly through the rain, trying to gain as much ground as possible in anticipation of today’s incoming supertyphoon.

All the carry/push/pull carts needed some serious attention. My tires have peeled just about completely off my wheels. 2 of Mike Fowler’s 4tires have popped and the undercarraige of Ensons cart has broken in 3different places.

Thankfully enough for Island Love and the power of facebook that one of Enson’s fans/friends followingthe walk had been so dilligent to track us down…

Special thanks to Guam-rooted James Wolford and Hawaii’s Darren Suzuki. Even in the foreign land of the rising sun, the spirit of Hafa Adai&Aloha shows up to save us from the storm. Darren was kind enough to donate a room and even after driving 4hours to find us, buy us dinner, and give us a ride to the home center in the rain to fix our carts..James even gave us a ride to safe shelter.Thanks fellas, we will never forget it.

Personally, outside of its original purpose to create awareness of Tohoku’s dire straits ,  these acts of kindness are some of the bigest motivators to finish this walk…Its great to see how people have bent over backwards in support of the mission. Honored to bend over backwards with you to help keep these good wheels turning. The support has been so abundant that the mission itself has become so much more than an adventure for the walkers but n epic  journey of generosity, camaraderie, and humanity–we are simply the vehicles.

The talk is getting kind of hokey so im gonna cut it off before i run way off tangent. The reality of it is that the walk has, is, and will surely continue to be achallenge. Hot sun and cold rain have its effects on the brain. and sometimes words just dont come out right…Nonetheless, Its been a long and tremendous conversation with the universe and despite the excitement to get back home into some waves, friends, and family..i’m .more than happy that it isnt quite over just yet…Looking forward to the adventure that lies ahead and hoping to leave a good trail behind.

WORD OF THE DAY: Kamoshirinai=Maybe

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Miyamoto Musashi was a badass

PHOTO OF THE DAY:

 

 

October15th…ish,2013

Hafa Adai&Yoroshiku

Its October 15th,2013 and I believe tomorrow will be our 36th day of the walk…currently roughly halfway across Japan from our launching pad in Sapporo to our landing field in northern Kyushuu by or before November 20th.

Id originally planned to maintain a frequent and steady blog entry on www.fokai.tv via  my new phone but i never really put enough effort into learning how to use my phone better…  no qualifiable excuses. Since Enson has been more than frequent enough posting on facebook, his blog, and instagram–it almost feels that anything i might post would be redundant. but after realizing that though we have are walking down the same roads, meeting the same people, and relatively doing the same things…in more ways than one–we are all having a different experience. IT is something that im not yet quite able to put down in words but have tried to highlight via instagram…since a picture tells athousand words, a daily entry at 36 days can sure say alot but yet fails to offer the path to what lies in between the lines.

There efintiely is a lot to say–in between the horros of what happened through the tsunami and the kindness that lies deep inside the people and heart of Japan–we have been lucky enough to exhaust, proceed, and cultivate in the land of the Rising Sun.

So to simplify things and to spare any readers of unnecessary drama, bells, and whistles i thought to try and highlight some key aspects that have started our walks in the day and put us to sleep at night.

OCTOBER 15,2013

OFFERING OF THE DAY:

BondsSecurity:

PHOTO OF THE DAY:

http://instagram.com/thefokaieffect#

WORD OF ADVICE FOR THE DAY:

Learn to embrace  sacrifices

JAPANESE WORD OF THE DAY:

Daihyoo:Represent

NITTY GRITTY:

The walk has been more than amazing so far. and there really is  a whole lot to talk about…beautiful places, beautiful people, and hundreds and hundreds if years of romantics, martial arts, hard work, and  insane architecture supported and sustained by utmost effort.

Crazy Mike Fowler has joined the batch and that’s definitely stimulated the chemistry. Mike is going through some powerful things in life and its real cool to see him walk here to come back to center. Enson and Mike have proven themselves worthy among the best in the world and its an honor to walk with them and hopefully honorably  through a personal rite of passage.

A Whole lot of crazy coincidences have had a large part in guiding us through some impressive adventures since our last blog entry …Totally stoked to receive the Guam and Hawaii flags from Ensons cousin Jared–unbelievably honored to carry the Fly the Spirit of Hafa Adai, Aloha, and Yoroshiku across Japan…we finally got to stand up paddle surf, caught up with an old friend Rumina Sato, Pulled our bags up this really huge mountain, feast with the gods, walked the streets like ghosts, and those kinds of things.  We learned a lot about Dignity and manhood  from a homeless man named Tomio,  Enson almost got arrested, we didnt get to sleep to sleep  next day and it was really hot walking ..but at least we got to meet a lot of police officers, ride inside a police car, and get interviewed and photographed  see inside of the police station!

The next day…We walked right into the middle of a village festival and small parade after watching the sunset one night this bridge in a small village  i lost my passport and found it in this really cool village aaaaaand…met a reeally pretty girl! didnt get her name or picture or number but it was a brief yet great vibe.

We walked the beach and saw a whole bunch of surfspots. Got more respect for Jaonese surfing now…its an amazing subculture here as well. Meeting all kinds of good people and really seeing the goodness in humanity.

so thats the entry..it isnt poetry, not even sure if its understandable.Thats about it for now–todays typhoon has passed and i will be missing out again on tons of waves and good times on Guam the next few days. but still and again—the Adventure continues.

 

 

Face to Face:Enson&Tohoku

Powerful video depicting the mission of Enson Inoue’s Walk Across Japan and the pain, suffering, and gratitude of a forgotten and overlooked  reality

A local man was moved to tears after finding out what Enson and Roman were walking for. At one point he asked Enson if he was a ghost… a moving moment between two men with nothing but love and support for the people of Tohoku.

September 27,2012

Hafa Adai,

Due to tecnicalities with m PDA devices, not able to post adequately on the blog. tthis is actuallyy myy firsttt ttime at a desktop and itts onlyy brief so want to defintitelyy make the mostt of it.

if you can,click intto our    youtube links on the ight column for a first perspecttive look intto Enson’s Walk Across Japan.

 

firsttof al–sapporo was magnificentt. we startted off byy meettting someof Ensons friends for dinner immediatttely when we landed. tthtteyy tthought itt was amusing ttto watch us eatt alot so in antticipation of tttthe massive ttask in front of us, i paid httem tthe respect byy having tthree dinner meals..in one sitttting. afttter a good nighttts rest at a real nice hottel donated b Mashiko-san, one of ensons oldest friends in Japan,  we followed up y a breakfast almost as hearty—about 6000grams of Carbs thte body and hydrated like humpback whales it was safe ttto say that we were locked and loaded for our steps towards tthte otther side of  thte country.

As they say–tthe journe of a tthousand miles begins wittth a single sttep..itt sure does. on tthis particular case , our first step started in Sapporo city next tto  ahuge tv tower…enson and i knew thoughtt we had a good idea of what was in front of us. we are prepared to walk tttil latte november…but despittte tttthe joking and awefacttor of tthte discoveries ahead.. carryying around 40lbs on ur bhack and tttthe realittty of ensons crazy rules on ttthe tttrip of nott being able to purchase food or lodge was a bittt insane…or so i thoughtt at the time. aftter all–why face a giant witth one hand tied behind our back? shouldn we be grabbing machine guns and creatting alliances becasue we are alreadyyy att a huge disadvantage… bu going back to why we would have our hands ttied behind our back…i can see more clearly now is ttthat we are doing so because ttthe vicims ofTohoku ,after the tsunami, have both thteir hands and their fee ttied behind thteir back. thtey are gagged and blindfolded without shade in the sun nor warmth inthe cold..but tthey sttill have ttheir minds and the still have their spirit and thats sometthing were here to help mottivate…

sadlyy–itt seems that the world Has forgoten asbout March 11ths tsunami in Japan…people tthink tttheyy are recovered and hta all things are well…her ealityyy of it ishatt overall they are nottt…ever watttch a UFC? yyou know how i is aftter abloodyy fightt and a the end ttheres this dramtttic and super heavyy headkick that knocks a competitor out cold..tthe doctor comes in butt htey guy is outt way longer than fans are enterained witth…afer ttthe oohs, awws, and sttanding ovattion. tthe guy is still down and things sttarttt gettting pretttty scary…well, in a way, is like tthatt butt aboutt amillion ttimes worse. butt in thtte case of Tohoku…tthe docttors haventt stepped intto the octtagon…the knockout has been forgotten and tthte fans are already screaming “we want more”..

a 9.1 Richter-scaled eartthquake shook a countryy for 6minutes. waves omaxing outt at over 40meters in heightt DEVASATED tens of thousands of homes…and tthen camethe fire and then tthe cold….afer destructtion so massive and death so sudden

Spirits walk the streetts not even knowing theyy are dead butt sadlyy, tthe real haunting is witth manyy of survivors of March 11th,s ttsunami inTohoku.

TThis walk is an incredibly powerful and overwhelming experience. and thttis isnt justt tthe walk…ttthe people of Japan, though imperfect, have done trmemdous thtings for the world community. Far deep behind the tattoos ttthat we think are cool, thte food we deem so awesome, and he women we marvel at so beauiful–tthere is the Soul of Japan tthat we connect witth at ll differentt kinds of levels ttthtatt has made ttthe world a bettter plac

Ive been with Enson for about 15yyears…i ve always ttthoughtt that the priniciples of YamatoDamashii were awesome. i wasn unil years afer i mettt him however that i realied the strange look foreigners rrceive from Japanese descendans is bbecasue its stttangefor ttthem that non-Japanese are taking such pride in ttte Japanese Spirit…kind of like seeing a foreigner ttto AMErica wearing a shirt ttthatttt says “proud ttto be an American”…buttt alittle more tthan ttthat. tthe principles of bushido, ttthe etttiquette of budoka, the imporance of community, ice andtthe value of hospitalitty…this is tthe gold in tthe many nooks and crannies thattt hide between the lines of tteh beautiful kanji ofYamato DAmashii. and tthis is thte flag that we walk wittth and beyond and inside of all tthe ghost stories tthatt are abundant int tthe wake of tthe sunami–this is tthte Spirit ttha we are trying to help ressurect.

tto Japnese descendan…tthe internattional campaign of Yamattto Damashii is somehing you should be veryy proud of…it is of great honor tto your ancestorst that tttheir effort forward tto the source has been a beacon to tthe path of warrirorship, brotherhood, and phyysical, mental, and Spiritual Enlightenment.

YAMATO DAMASHII IS A WAY OF LIFE.

NEVER GIVE UP TOHOKU

 

 

CNN I-Report: TheWalk

Stoked to see that eyes are opento this story…check out this artticle on CNN I-Reporttt.

Enson Inoue walks the length of Japan to raise awareness for the 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami Victims  

By sjmccann  |  Posted             September 24, 2013  |  Fukushima, Japan                                

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