Akira HINO

Born in Osaka , Japan .

Not only well-known as a master of Japanese Budo(Martialarts), but he is also around as a director/instructor, a professional Jazz drummer, a writer, a stage directer and a lecturer.

He started gymnastic at junior high school without any coaching. He soon marked excellent records and was selected as one of the Tokyo Olympic qualifier for intense training.

As a professinal drummer, Hino collabolated with many internationally-known Japanese artists such as Yosuke Yamashita, Akira Sakata, Kaoru Abe, Motoharu Yoshizawa,Gozo Yoshimasu and so on.

In his 30's he founded the Hino Budo Institute as he established

" Hino method" from his ascetic training, which does not depend on muscle strength and uses body in the most rational way.

Because of his one-and-only amazing skill, Hino and his method was featured on national/international mass media(TV, Movie, Radio, Magazine, Newspaper, Video, DVD,etc) innumerable times.

One of his published books "Kokoro no katachi" has been translated into Spanish (La Imagen del Corazon) and English (The Image of Kokoro).

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