Haruhisa Handa

is a Japanese religious leader and a businessman. Handa is the chairman and spiritual leader of the Shinto-based religion World Mate. He is also known by the name in his artistic career, as well as the pen name . He also uses the pseudonym , which is used as his radio personality.

Handa is the founder of the Japanese Blind Golf Association. He is a chancellor and professor of the University of Cambodia, a professor of Japan Culture Research Institute at Zhejiang Gongshang University, been named an Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College at the University of Oxford,

Early career After undergraduate school, Handa began his employment at Daiwa House located in Tokyo. In 1978, he resigned from his position and established Misuzu Gakuen, a prep school run by Misuzu Co. Ltd. and in 1997, he started the International Blind Golf Association (IBGA). In 1996 he established the International Foundation for Arts and Culture (IFAC). Handa is also the cofounder of the Sihanouk Hospital in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

In 2000 Handa cofounded the Spring Bud elementary school in China. In 2006 he established the International Sports Promotion Society (ISPS) and founded the University of Cambodia, later serving as the Chancellor

Artistic career Handa received no formal musical education during his childhood, and began training in various art forms during his thirties and forties, including in tea ceremonies, Noh theatre, the piano, the violin, musical composition, Peking opera, conducting, music theory, In 1994 he worked as a conductor at the Albert Hall, when he booked the building in order to produce a multi-genre dance and musical performance. His debut in opera came in March 1997 (see below), and in the same year, at the age of 46, he completed Musashino Academia Musicae Parnassos Eminence.

In addition to opera, he is also active as a singer-songwriter of popular music, and as Honorary Advisor to the Faldo Trust for Tomorrow's Champions (Asia) Limited. In 2000 he published his first collection of haiku, Kagerō. In 2009 his second haiku collection, Shinshu (New Autumn), was published, with 59 haiku selected by Junko Ito and another 159 selected by Touta Kaneko. As a poet, in 2009, he published Asu ni Nareba – Toto Ami Shishū in March, Halley Suisei – Totoami Shishū in April and Awadatsu Kocha – Toto Ami Shishū in August. He then published Majo no Medama – Toto Ami Shishū in May 2011. He is Director of the Toshu Haiku Society and a member of the Gendai Haiku Association. His haiku are included in the Gendai Haiku database. Handa serves as Chairman of the Kyowa (Harmony of All People) Foundation.