Tokujiro Namikoshi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Japanese Shiatsu therapist
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Place of Birth: Kagawa Prefecture, Shikoku, Japan
About Tokujiro Namikoshi
- Tokujiro Namikoshi (Japanese: ?? ???, Hepburn: Namikoshi Tokujiro, 1905 – 2000) is the founder of Shiatsu therapy.
- He was born on the island of Shikoku.
- As a young boy of seven, he discovered his hands-on therapy pressure method while treating his mother’s rheumatoid arthritis.
- He named this method "Shiatsu". In 1940, he established the Japan Shiatsu College in Tokyo.
- Many of his graduates now practice in Japan and overseas.
- Some of these graduates have popularized their own styles, called Derivative Shiatsu, such as Tadashi Izawa of Meridian Shiatsu and Shizuto Masunaga of Zen Shiatsu.
- Also Hiroshi Nozaki who began the Hiron Shiatsu branch which a holistic school of shiatsu popular in Switzerland, France and Italy.
- Namikoshi also established the Japan Shiatsu Association in 1947.
- He died at age 95 in 2000.
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