Tadashi Izawa was a Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese Shiatsu

Shiatsu

Shiatsu is Japanese for "finger pressure;" it is a type of alternative medicine consisting of finger and palm pressure, stretches, and other massage techniques. There is no scientific evidence proving that shiatsu can treat any disease, but shiatsu practitioners promote it as a way to help people...

 practitioner who introduced the derivative form Meridian Shiatsu

Meridian Shiatsu

Meridian Shiatsu is a derivative form of the Japanese therapy Shiatsu. It uses the Meridian theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine that was introduced into Japan from China. Meridian Shiatsu contrasts with Tsubo Shiatsu where the tsubos or acupuncture points are determined from an anatomical and...

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After graduating from Kobe

Kobe

, pronounced , is the fifth-largest city in Japan and is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture on the southern side of the main island of Honshū, approximately west of Osaka...

 Second High School in 1916, he went to Korea to study at a school for Instructors. After that, he taught in southern Korea and became the Principal of an elementary school and then a girls' school.

After World War II, he studied under the founder of Shiatsu, Tokujiro Namikoshi

Tokujiro Namikoshi

Tokujiro Namikoshi 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”....

. He became the Vice-principal of the Japan Shiatsu College and the Vice-president of the Japan Shiatsu Association.

After studying the Edo Period

Edo period

The , or , is a division of Japanese history which was ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family, running from 1603 to 1868. The political entity of this period was the Tokugawa shogunate....

 masterpiece of Anma

Anma

Anma refers to practitioners of the Japanese massage of the same name, which has its origins in China. Anma was often practiced in communal business groups in feudal Japan. They were made popular by the famous popular culture character known as Zatoichi, quite possibly the best known and most...

, Anpuku, he published Anpuku and Shiatsu Therapy in 1946. He took initiative in the field and also authored Meridian and Shiatsu Therapy, Ishinbo and Shiatsu Therapy, and a pathology text. (All books were written in Japanese

Japanese language

is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...

.) He died in 1990 at the age of 95.