Year Events
1882 Born in Tokyo on December 23
1897 Enters core program at Tokyo School of Fine Arts

Leaves the school after six months due to an eye disease

Begins studying gold-inlay lacquer techniques on his own

1905 Opens Kôrindô, a notions store in Tokyo

1907 Starts wholesale accessories business in Tokyo

1919 Loses wife after she gives birth prematurely; the child also dies

Remarries

Begins to experience great financial difficulties

1920 Abandons materialism and becomes aware of the existence of the spiritual world

1926 Receives a revelation from God regarding his predestined task of creating a true civilization

1934 Develops Jôrei, the medical art of Japan, and begins practicing and promoting it

1935 Establishes Japan Kannon Society [Dai Nihon Kannon Kai] to advance the work of creating a true civilization

Begins to advocate Nature Farming

1944-5 Moves headquarters of Kannon Society from Tokyo to Hakone and purchases property in Atami

After end of World War II, commences full-scale operations to create a new civilization

1952-3 Opens Hakone Museum of Art

Establishes Tômei Society for the Preservation of Art Objects

Completes Shinsenkyô grounds in Hakone

Inaugurates Society for Popularizing Nature Farming

1954 Completes Suishôden [Crystal Hall]

1955 Kyûsei Kaikan [Salvation Hall] completed

Passes away in Atami at age 72

1980 Mokichi Okada Association (MOA) inaugurated

1982 MOA Museum of Art opens

Zuiunkyô grounds in Atami completed

Tômei Society for the Preservation of Art Objects reorganized as MOA Art and Culture Foundation

Nature Farming International Research Foundation and Ohito Farm established

1985 NFRIC becomes Nature Farming International Research Foundation and receives governmental recognition

1987 Standards for Nature Farming Systems and Practices published

Nature Farming producers' cooperatives established throughout Japan

1989 MOA branches, which promote MOA's activities at the grass-roots level, open throughout Japan

1991 MOA Federation of Diet Members for Contemplating Food and Agriculture and Protecting the Global Environment inaugurated

MOA's first Jôin Clinic opens in Tokyo

World Sustainable Agricultural Association (WSAA) inaugurated

MOA Kyushu Life Science Institute established

1993 Preparatory meeting for the World Congress of the International Academic Board of Comprehensive Medicine

1994 MOA Jôin Headquarters established

1995 Summit on Religions and Conservation