1) history & founding of shorinji kempo
- 1928: Kaiso travelled to China and learned a great variety of techniques of the masters he met during his work.
- 1945: After the defeat, Kaiso witnesses the cruelty of human actions, and
- 1946: returning to Japan, he decided to revive his country by nurturing its people, and in
- 1947: Kaiso started teaching the techniques he had learned in China in the place of Tadotsu, a small harbor town, in Kagawa Prefecture.
- progression(s)
- 1951: Kongo Zen Sohonzan Shorinji
- 1952: Nihon Shorinji Bugei Semmon Gakko
- 1957: Zen Nihon Shorinji Kempo Zemmei
- 1963: Shorinji Kempo Federation of Japan
