Toshikatsu Yamamoto (1929 to 2026) was a Japanese physician who worked in the field of acupuncture. He graduated in medicine from the Nippon Medical School in Tokyo in 1956 and afterwards gained qualification in surgery, anesthesia and obstetrics in New Jersey, New York and Cologne, Germany. On returning to Japan in 1966 he founded a hospital. During the 1960s he developed Yamamoto New Scalp Acupuncture, known by the initials YNSA, and in 1991 he graduated from the University of Miyazaki with research on scalp acupuncture. In 1998 he founded the Yamamoto Rehabilitation Clinic in Miyazaki. He set out the method in a German language book, Yamamoto Neue Schädelakupunktur, with editions in 1985, 1991 and 2004, and in a DVD released in 2005. He died on 20 January 2026 at the age of 96.
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