Honors | Society of Writers

United Nations, Society of Writers, 20 September, 1994

John McConnell & Michio Kushi, United Nations

Congressional Record, June 7, 1999

Smithsonian Institution Acknowledgement of Gift

Smithsonian Institution, August 25, 1997

A memorial website for the Japanese educator who helped introduce modern macrobiotics to the USA in the early 1950s. He lectured around the world at conferences and seminars on philosophy, spiritual development, health, nutrition, and disease.

Michio Kushi passed away peacefully the morning of December 28, 2014 in Boston, due to complications related to metastatic pancreatic cancer. On his last day, he was fully conscious and surrounded by his wife and sons. He is survived by his wife, Midori, brother, four sons, fourteen grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, and a worldwide extended family of students, colleagues, and friends.