Stephen Brown was born and raised in Japan, and he graduated from the Japan Central Acupuncture College in
Tokyo in 1983. After becoming licensed as an acupuncturist and shiatsu practitioner he studied Zen Shiatsu at Shizuto
Masunaga’s clinic in Tokyo. In 1984 he attended the Advanced International Acupuncture Training Course at
the Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing, China. He returned to Tokyo to continue his studies with
renouned teachers including Manaka Yoshio MD and Serizawa Katsusuke. He moved to Seattle in 1986 and
opened his practice and began teaching shiatsu and acupuncture at the Northwest Institute of Acupuncture and
Oriental Medicine. Being a native speaker of Japanese, he has translated many texts on Oriental medicine and has
served as an interpreter for international seminars. He is a regular faculty member at the Seattle Institute of Oriental
Medicine is an associate editor of the NAJOM.