Toshikatsu Yamamoto, a Japanese physician who worked in the field of acupuncture, died on January 20, 2026.
Born on December 15, 1929, he graduated in 1956 from Nippon Medical School in Tokyo. He later gained qualifications in surgery, anesthesia and obstetrics in New Jersey, New York and Cologne, Germany.
In 1966, he returned to Japan and founded a hospital. During the 1960s, he developed Yamamoto New Scalp Acupuncture (YNSA). In 1991, he graduated from the University of Miyazaki with research on scalp acupuncture, and in 1998 he founded the Yamamoto Rehabilitation Clinic in Miyazaki.
Toshikatsu Yamamoto (山元敏勝, Yamamoto Toshikatsu) (15 December 1929 – 20 January 2026) was a Japanese physician who worked in the field of acupuncture.