Besides Takakura method and EM technology, there is another pioneer in this field proceeding Sogabe Method. This method is somewhat different from Takakura method in a way to cultivate bacterial strain in a liquid medium like EM technology rather than like EM in liquid. This may be much easier.

The ingredients to make bacterial strain are brown sugar, yeast, yogurt, fermented soybeans (natto). They are let grow under 36 degrees Celsius for 24 hours. The initial liquid medium that EM technology uses are made by combining brown sugar, water, yeast, and lactic acid bacteria (yogurt) with photosynthetic bacteria. The medium is let grow under 35 degrees Celsius for a week. The concentration of bacteria is much higher than Sogabe method, so the liquid medium can be diluted a hundred times.

Either method is overall Japan’s first revolutionary technology using natural, non-harmful microorganisms. They restore rotten and fetid environmental wastes that have increased excessively under the oxidizing environment, water, and oxidized soil. The disposing waste issue around the world eventually creates a frame of pandemic. It is the world’s most important responsibility to secure adequate, healthy food production for the increasing populations. What Takakura method, EM technology, and Sogabe method have in common is that they are all low-tech, but produce significant results, which any local people, even children are able to handle. At the same time, another benefit of those methods and technology is that they successfully led local people to improve their way of thinking toward garbage and environment.

Mr. Takakura traveled around the coutnry
showing how to make kitchen garbage into natural compost.

If the eco-revolution is a topic only among scholars and specialists excluding the general people, it would be impossible to change the way of thinking toward disposing garbage. Also, if it was treated as a means of business, the cost for this activity would have set high as such. The base ingredients with added value are open to public so that they can be prepared easily and reasonably at home, which is another great part of this. What if such technology and methods were developed in the Western societies and the patents were seized all over the world and when the imitations were found, compensation would be charged in the court? The world must have been totally different. I truly believe the developing countries especially the poverty is the severe issue should be assured of good harvest and disposing garbage properly. Agricultural methods using microorganisms are certainly a gift for mankind in 21 century because people engaging with agriculture can be free from liver diseases or cancers. They shall bring about happiness.