Background
He was born on the island of Shikoku.
浪越徳治郎
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.
Also Hiroshi Nozaki who began the Hiron Shiastu branch which a holistic school of shiastu poplar in Switzerland, France and Italy. Namikoshi also established the Japan Shiatsu Association in 1947.
He died at age 95 in 2000.