Kankyō akka ni mo makezu: Mirai no sonzoku no tame ni kako o yomu” (Strong in the environmental Degradation: reading the past for surviving the future).

The paper is focused on on the timeless and ever present message of the children’s stories of Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933) which is “living in harmony with all being creatures” and relate it with Japanese folktales (mukashi banashi ), as source of his believes (spiritual values). As folktales, Miyazawa Kenji ’s stories go beyond Japan and Japanese people and as Roger Pulvers wrote he “can most thoroughly help us to understand and pursue” harmony with environment .