About Us
The people behind Nihon Koku Tosa Inu

We are Ans van Zon and Rob Schoenmaker and we live in The Netherlands in the little town Zierikzee in the province Zeeland.

We are both certified dogtrainers at 
Hondenschool Schouwen-Duiveland 

We have had dogs for about 25 years, our first dogs were a Belgian Tervueren  and a little Jack Russell terrier. 

About 16 years ago our interest in the Tosa was awoken by an article in the then still existing Dutch dogmagazine "Dogs with Spirit". After we had obtained more information we decided this would become our future dog.

After a few years later, at the age of 16, our Tervueren passed away we  searched for Tosa breeders an thus we came in contact with Robert Schol and Mariska Schrieken of Megasthenes Tosa Inu's 
Two years later, in 2001, we got our first Tosa, the male Chintarou. Living with Chintarou  our truth passion for the Tosa awoke and in 2003 we decided to get a second one, a female from the Megasthenes E-litter, her name is Ekira.

As a puppy Ans took Ekira to some dogshows and  because Ekira got very promissing reports from the different judges Ans became enthusiast she carried on showing Ekira in The Netherlands and Belgium. Thus in The Netherlands Ekira became Dutch Champion,  Winner 2006 and Winner 2007 and in Belgium she became Belgian Champion and Belgian Winner.

Because of these results we decided to take on the new challenge of breeding Tosa´s with Ekira. For our kennel name we chose "Nihon Koku", which means "Land of the Rising Sun" We found this a very appropriate name for a Japanese dogbreed.
Up till now Ekira has twice had a litter with in total 16 puppies, which have moved to the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Finland.

Heaving puppies is a very heavy job and for the health of the female we find two nests enough, therefore Ekira now may enjoy her retirement.  
But in the future we hope to breed puppies again with our own bred female Kiyo, official name Nihon Koku's Benihime.
We have waited until Kiyo became 3 years old before planning a litter with her, because we believe that's the minimum age for a Tosa female to get puppies. In 2011 she reached that age, so now we are planning her first litter.  We hope the coverage can take place in october 2011 and the birth Mid-December 2011.

Of course we will keep you informed about that on this website.
If you are interested in one of our future puppies, please contact us via info@nihonkoku.nl