BRIEF HISTORY OF SHIATSU RECOGNITION

1912 Tokujiro creates the method of Shiatsu

1940 Foundation of Japan Shiatsu College

1955 Shiatsu concept is taken to reunions about public issues in the senate and in assemblies of Health Office

1955 Regulation of practices of massages Anma and Shiatsu

1957 Recognition of definition of Shiatsu by Health Office

1964 Change the professional denomination to "therapist of Anma, of massage and of Shiatsu"

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF SHIGERU ONODA

In 1981 he graduates in Japan Shiatsu College, Tokyo, obtaining the official license required to practice Shiatsu in Japan.

In 1984 he moves to Spain, creating his own clinic in Madrid

Since 1994 he is president of Spanish Association of Shiatsu

In 1997 he founded "Escuela Japonesa de Shiatsu" in Madrid

In 2002 he founded "Escuela Japonesa de Shiatsu" in Malaga

Since 2002, he is president of Namikoshi Shiatsu Europa

He published eight texts about Shiatsu therapy directed to countries Spanish influenced also to Portugal and Holland.‚His editions