Hiromi Tojo Sensei started practicing
Shorinji Kempo when he was 18 years old.
He received his first instruction from
Uchiyama Sensei (9th dan) at Soshigaia-doin
in Tokyo, Japan.
In that time he also took the instructors'
course at Budo-senmongatsko, which specializes
in training Shorinji Kempo instructors, under
the guidance of an instructor from Shorinji Kempo
headquarters.
He has 4th dan black belt.
He studied Arts in Sociology at the University of Rikkyo, Tokyo,
in which he obtained a Bachelor degree.
In 1982, he came to the Netherlands and introduced
Shorinji Kempo by founding the Amsterdam school.
This school now exists for over twenty years,
and still profits from the more than thirty years of experience
of Tojo Sensei.
Hiromi Tojo is also an actor for TV, theater and film.
He was co-host of the Dutch TV program
Ushi en van Dijk interview SBS6.