Dr. Kimura and Mr. Kumon
Established in 1984 by
Dr.
Dan Kimura, a professor at Washington University,
the
Ladue Kumon center was the first
Kumon Center in the Midwest. Dr. Kimura learned about the
Kumon Method in his hometown Moriguchi, in the suburb of Osaka,
Japan, where Mr. Tohru Kumon started the Method in 1955. In
his
Opening
Remarks given at the 4th Midwest Kumon Instructors
Conference, Dr. Kimura describes his first encounter with
the Kumon Method.
Dr. Kimura and Mr. Annaka,
President of Kumon
Both Mr. Kumon and Dr. Kimura graduated from Osaka University.
Dr. and Mrs. Kimura introduced the Kumon Method to St.
Louis in 1984 for their two sons, 5th and 6th graders at
the time, to learn school math.
In this picture, taken during the meeting in 1993 at the
Kumon Headquarters in Osaka, Dr. Kimura shows Mr. Kumon
the 1992
Post-Dispatch article about the first Kumon Center
in St. Louis and how it was started.
