Teruo Higa


Teruo Higa is a professor at the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa, to the south of the main Japanese archipelago, and grew up there. Following his graduation from the Department of Agriculture, University of the Ryukyus, he took his doctorate from the Agricultural Research Department of Kyushu University Graduate School, eventually returning to join the teaching staff of the University of the Ryukyus as lecturer in 1970, becoming assistant professor two years later. He became Professor of Horticulture in 1982.
He pioneered the development of "effective microorganism" products. He is a Master of Health and Nutrition with The Beijing DeTao Masters Academy, a high-level, multi-discipline, application-oriented higher education institution in Shanghai, China.

Positions held by Teruo Higa

  • Chairman, Executive Committee of the International Promotion of Nature Farming
  • President, Asia-Pacific Natural Agriculture Network
  • Director, International Nature Farming Research Center
  • Technological Adviser, Japan Flower Association
  • Scientific Adviser, Association for the Cleaning of Japan's Water
  • Director and Head of the Okinawa Branch, Japan World Health Organization
  • Director, Earth Environment and Co-Existence Network
  • Director, Flowers in City Development and Constructions Network
  • Chairman, Evaluation Committee for the "National Contest of Flowers in City Development and Constructions"
  • Others, successive posts in national and prefectural committees

    Books and publications by and about Teruo Higa

  • Major publications Use of Microorganisms in Agriculture & Their Positive Effects on *Environmental Safety
  • EM Environmental Revolution
  • EM Industrial Revolution
  • An Earth Saving Revolution: Solutions to Problems in Agriculture, the Environment and Medicine.
  • An Earth Saving Revolution II: The Proven Effects of EM Technology.
  • An Earth Saving Revolution III: The Global Spread of EM Technology
  • The Genuine Century
  • Microorganisms Rescue the Civilization
  • EM: A New Life for Kitchen Garbage
  • All About Teruo Higa
  • Yomigaeru Mirai
  • EM Medical Revolution
  • Wonder of Sosei Sea Salt
  • New Century - EM Environmental Revolution
  • ''Our Future Reborn: EM Technology Changes The World''