Hideo Takahashi, B.A., R.Ac.

I graduated from the Kyoto University of Foreign Studies in 1984 and from the Kansai College of Acupuncture and Bone-setting in 1987. In 1987, I received my Japanese license in acupuncture and moxibustion. I worked at the Arai Hospital and became the head acupuncturist at the Matsumoto clinic in Osaka, Japan. In 1989, I moved to Toronto, Canada, to work for the Shiatsu Centre, established as the first Shiatsu clinic in Canada by Master Ted Saito. 1992 I moved to Vancouver, where I started my private practice.

As I established my acupuncture practice in Vancouver, I also started volunteering for the North American Journal of Oriental Medicine (NAJOM) from 1992 to 2007 as a translator and associate editor. Over the past thirty years, I have contributed numerous articles to NAJOM and Shinkyu OSAKA, an Osaka-based acupuncture journal. I have also presented seminars on the Dashin technique and Shiraku in New York, Paris, Santa Fe, and Vancouver.