Early Life, Family and Training Keiichi Tanaami was born in Tokyo, Japan, on 21 July 1936. As the eldest son of a textile wholesaler, his early environment was defined by the commercial realities of post-war reconstruction. However, the stability of his domestic life was shattered by the Great Tokyo Air Raid of 1945. At only nine years old, Tanaami witnessed the destruction of his city, an experience that provided the raw, traumatic i…