“Sanpaku is a Japanese term that literally means “three areas empty”.

It refers to two sides of the eye that show white (”empty”) plus the lower area.

A person manifesting this appearance was considered chronically fatigued, headed for serious illness, and accident-prone.

George Ohsawa, the founder of Macrobiotics, wrote an article which appeared in the New York Times many years ago titled The Fate of the Sanpaku. In the article he named a number of famous people, including US President John F. Kennedy and his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, as well as Marilyn Monroe and other Hollywood celebrities.

Mr. Ohsawa predicted tragic outcomes for all of these people based on photographs he had observed in the news media.

All of the people he mentioned exhibited the condition called Sanpaku.”

When his “predictions” came true it created a sensation!