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Kumiko Shirai grew up in Kobe, Japan but has been living in the USA for more than ten years. Influenced by her mother, a Taiji master, she learned to appreciate Asian medical and martial arts from an early age and has been practicing Aikido for almost twenty years.

Kumiko majored in Chinese Studies (BSc) and attended the School of Classical Chinese Medicine at the National College of Natural Medicine in Portland, OR, USA where she graduated with a Masters (MSc) of Oriental Medicine. Kumiko trained in discipleship with Dr. Arnaud Versluys for three years and now specializes in Han-dynasty herbal medicine and Japanese abdominal diagnosis (fukushin) on which she has also published.

She is a fellow of the Institute of Classics in East Asian Medicine and instructor in Dr. Versluys’ Canonical Chinese Medicine Training teaching both in the US and in Europe. Kumiko can be reached at kshirai@iceam.org