![]() In addition to his expertise in Japanese acupuncture and moxibusion, Stephen is a practitioner and teacher of traditional exercises for health including yoga, taichi, sotai, and qigong. ![]() Stephen is a also the founding member of the North American Journal of Oriental Medicine, a journal devoted to traditional Japanese medicine, and serves its assistant editor. In addition to assisting his teacher, Shudo Denmei, Stephen has interpreted for many prominent acupuncture teachers visiting from Japan. He translated Shudo Denmei’s second book, Finding Effective Acupuncture Points, and it was published in 2003. Shudo Denmei has comes to teach in the US ten times since 1992, and Stephen has served as his interpreter every time. His first translation of a Japanese acupuncture text was Introduction to Meridian Therapy by Shudo Denmei, which was published in 1990. Stephen is currently a core faculty member of Seattle Institute of Oriental Medicine, where he teaches shiatsu, Sotai, Japanese styles of acupuncture and moxibustion and supervises these clinics. He moved to the Seattle area in 1986, where he joined the faculty of the Northwest Institute of Oriental Medicine, and has been teaching and practicing shiatsu and acupuncture around Seattle ever since. Stephen began his teaching career in 1985 as an instructor for the International Acupuncture Training Program of Kuretake Institute in Tokyo. In this period Stephen co-authored Chigong for Health with Masaru Takahashi and also translated the texts Sotai: Balance and Health Through Natural Movement, by Hashimoto Keizo MD and Meridian Exercises, by Masunaga Shizuto. He returned to Japan afterward and continued his studies in Sotai and Zen Shiatsu. He studied qigong and acupuncture in Beijing, PRC for three months early in 1984. He is licensed to practice shiatsu, acupuncture, and moxibustion in Japan. graduated from Japan Central Acupuncture College in Tokyo in 1983. ![]()
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