Josh Gold(b. c. 1940). After university, Sugawara spent several months at the IWAMA Dojo as an UCHIDESHI in the late 1960s under Morihiro SAITO. He established the Minato Research and Publishing Company c. 1973 and published the five-volume series by Saito entitled Traditional Aikido. A book Aikido: Its Heart and Appearance was also published. Subsequent publications have been Budo Training in Aikido (a bilingual republication of the Japanese manual BUDO RENSHU originally published in 1933 by the KOBUKAN DOJO), The Deity and The Sword (on the Katori Shinto-ryu of Risuke Otake) and a book on the Goju-ryu Karate of Morio Higaonna. Also an exponent of Katori Shinto-ryu and Goju-ryu Karate . Sugawara Sogo Budo, 3-20-13 Tadao, Machida-shi, Tokyo-to 194-02 Japan (0427)94-0972. Yoshio Sugino (1990)
Sugawara and co-author Xing Lujian have also written the two volume “Aikido and the Chinese Martial Arts.”