Ishigaki

Joey has this thing of, like, just, uh, completely missing all these, like, crazy weather events in Japan.

I feel like every time you fly out of Ishigaki, there's, like, some giant typhoon coming or something like that.

Tell us about the, the, the near misses.

And Honshu too has been getting a bunch of typhoons.

Japan gets a lot of typhoons.

Maybe this year was more than normal, but if you're gonna be traveling around the country by plane, I had to time my plane tickets.

Like, I was kind of like, okay, I knew I would be going from Ishigaki to Tokyo, like, around the end of this month or, or, you know, whatever, roughly.

And plane tickets within Japan, domestic ones are cheap, so I wasn't too worried.

One is, you know, I still do watercolors.

Like I spent a winter in a little island off the coast of Japan called Ishigaki.

And I did watercolors of seascapes and environment during that time.

While at the same time, envisaging the possibility of how it was when I got back to the studio, I was going to be working with the creative process in terms of how this had affected my own journey towards the mandala.

three hours.

It's closer than Ishigaki.

Wow, okay, okay.

A little bit disappointing.

I was in Shibuya for three years.

And then I went to Ishigaki and Hateruma Islands for one year.

And Hateruma has only 500 inhabitants on the island.

And there is, of course, I'm the only doctor on the island.

And medicine is not for the rich people, right? It's for the humanity itself.

In another interview you gave, you mentioned that many of the patients you treated still consulted shamans.

Oh, and yes, Ishigaki and Hateruma Islands.

Yeah, it's part of their culture.

Really, really bad experience.

And it took me in Ishigaki down in Okinawa.

It took me two months to finally get internet set up.

Starlink solves that problem.