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Mr. Masaki Takao

Osaka East Branch Dojo

2-3-13 Egeyama-cho, Hyogo-ku, Kobe-shi, 652-0043, Japan

Tel: (90) 8456-3399

Mr. Takami Nariaki

Ehime Branch Dojo

3-10-1, Nagahori, Uwajima-shi, Ehime-ken 798-0082, Japan

Tel: (89) 522-7497

Mr. Abe Kiyofumi

Fukuoka Dojo

Kouyou Bldg. 2F, 15-16, Tamagawa-cho, Minami-ku,

Fukuoka-shi 815-0037, Japan. Tel: (92) 553-6807

Shorinji Kempa

Shorinji Kempo (Shaolin Temple Fist Method) was created by its founder So Doshin in the 1940s in Tadotsu, Japan. Shorinji Kempo, perhaps more than the other styles discussed so far, looks to China for its inspiration. The founder studied martial arts in China for seventeen years while working as an operative of the Japanese government, and upon returning home combined them with Japanese fighting arts to form an empty-handed fighting style that bears a superficial resemblance to a combination of karatedo and aikido.

So Doshin’s inspiration was the mind and body training methods of the monks of the Shaolin temple, while the direct instigation to his creation of Shorinji Kempo was the disastrous state of Japanese society after World War II. So Doshin created Shorinji Kempo to help the Japanese, especially young people, to develop the spirit and strength of mind and body to enable them to rebuild a new and better Japanese society.