Background
He was born in Kure, Hiroshima and graduated in psychology from Kyoto University.
増永 静人
He was born in Kure, Hiroshima and graduated in psychology from Kyoto University.
In 1959, he graduated from the Japan Shiatsu College and went on to teach psychology and shiatsu at the college.
At the same time, he was professor of psychology at Tokyo Univertity. Masunaga grew up in a family of shiatsu practitioners, with his mother having studied with Tamai Tempaku, originator of the term shiatsu and author of "Shiatsu Ho" ("finger pressure method"). He also wrote several other Shiatsu books
He died at the age of 57 in 1981 of colorectal cancer.