Two personalities from Japan unveil book, give concert in Chisinau

Chisinau, 19 September /MOLDPRES/ - A book titled, “Unlocking the Mysteries of Birth and Death… and Everything in Between,” by a Japanese writer, Daisaku Ikeda, published at the Adenium publishing house from Iasi, Romania, and a classical music concert by a piano player from Japan, Hiroko Minakami, were presented at the Serghei Lunchevici National Philharmonic on 18 September.    
The book was translated from English into Romanian by a departed writer, actor and stage manager Andrei Vartic and his daughter Ilinca.  
At the event, editor Florin Iancu said that, in his volume, the author taught us how to develop the vital force, so as to turn the adversities of life into sources of happiness and power, how to overcome the worlds of famine, rage, animality and the hell, in order to live in humaneness and in the heaven.   
According to Iancu, Daisaku Ikeda (born in 1928), is one of the well-known Buddhist teachers of nowadays, writer, poet, activist for peace and militant for abolition of nuclear weapons. He is author of more than 50 volumes; Daisaku Ikeda was awarded numerous prizes and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize (2015 and 2016).    
Attending the event, writer Claudia Partole told MOLDPRES that the aforementioned book by Daisaku Ikeda was a work about life and death, which approaches an essential and eternal subject, about which the entire mankind meditates.  
“In this book, the author speaks about our forerunners, who tackled the same subject: B.P. Hasdeu, Mihai Eminescu, Matei Basarab, etc. This is a teaching guiding us towards knowledge, in order to discover the interior forces which strengthen the organism both physically and spiritually,” Partole noted.    
The second mart of the event represented a concert of classical music given by piano player Hiroko Minakami. The artist is the first pianist from abroad to perform a concert in Romania following the downfall of the Ceausescu regime. She gave more than 1,500 concerts in numerous countries on all continents. Minakami sang in Romania in the cities of Arad, Timisoara, Cluj, Iasi and Ploiesti. She composed TV programmes, and her first album was sold in over 25,000 copies.  
(Reporter N. Roibu, editor L. Alcaza)