Aiming for world peace through haiku

The reasons why I want to make haiku an intangible cultural heritage are, firstly, that it is short. It has a fixed 5:7:5 ratio and is the shortest poetic form in the world.

Secondly, it writes about the lives of humans living in harmony with nature, with nature at the center. In other words, it is literature about living in harmony with nature. Many people in Japan write and read haiku. Also, loving nature makes you value it, and this will play a very important role in preventing global warming.

Thirdly, it is short and is literature about living in harmony with nature, and anyone can write it. An extremely large number of people in Japan write and read haiku.

Due to the influence of haiku, three-line poems are on the rise worldwide, and because it is short, interest in haiku is spreading all over the world, including among people who have never written poetry before. As the number of people who sympathize with haiku increases in this world, it becomes possible to communicate the will of each ethnic group with each other, and this can be done through haiku.

I believe that this will eventually lead to world peace, which is why I am promoting this registration movement.

(At a press conference held by the Japan National Press Club on January 26, 2017)