As we near the end of 2022, I wanted to share what I, and Aikido Journal, have been up to since our last update in May – and what lies ahead.  Aikido Pioneers: Postwar Era I’m excited to announce that...

Lisa Tomoleoni Shihan (6th dan Aikikai) spent almost 15 years in Japan training at the Aikido World Headquarters and teaching Aikido professionally at a dojo in Tokyo.  In addition to over 30 years Aikido...

Kayla Feder Sensei, 7th dan, Aikikai, is the Dojo-Cho of Aikido of Berkeley. In 1973 at age of 9 Kayla fell in love with Aikido and now has almost 50 years of continuous training in the art. For the first 20...

The following editorial was contributed by Jason Perna of Old City Aikido. When I first stepped on an Aikido mat, O-Sensei had only been gone for about 20 years. My teachers still spoke of him often and...

In May, 1974, an event occurred that shook the roots of the aikido world to its very foundations. It was then that Koichi Tohei, the chief instructor of the Aikikai Hombu Dojo, resigned from his post and left...

In Spring 2022, Yoshimitsu Yamada Sensei sat down with Josh Gold at San Francisco Aikikai to discuss his time as an uchi-deshi, his perspective on aikido’s growth and evolution over his almost 70 years of...