(b. 12 June 1951). 5th dan Iwama Aikido. Job Design consultant. Senior representative of Iwama Aikido in Southern Germany. B. in Ansbach, Germany. Began study of judo in 1967 and started aikido with Gerd Wischnewski...
Archive - August 2011
Josh GoldHideo Sawamura 沢村秀雄
(b. 1925). 8th dan IMAF, 1987. B. Nagasaki Prefecture. Served in the Japanese navy starting 1943. Obtained taxi driver’s license in 1963. Began training in February 1967 and received 5th dan in 1977. Actively...
Keisuke Sato
(13 May 1907-17 October 2001). Kyoju dairi in Daito-ryu aikijujutsu. B. Semi, Yamagata Prefecture. Began practicing judo while a middle school student. While preparing for his university entrance examination in Kyoto...
Andrew M. Sato
(b. 1950). 6th dan Aikikai. B. Evanston, Illinois. Started Ki Aikido under Fumio TOYODA in 1977, following Toyoda as the AAA/AAI realigned under the Aikikai Hombu dojo. For a brief period, was chief instructor of the...
Masando Sasaki 佐々木将人
(1929-15 February 2013). 8th dan Aikikai. B. Yamagata Prefecture. Graduate in economics and law from Chuo University. Began aikido in 1954 while employed by the Self-Defense Agency. Joined the Tempukai and Ichikukai. A...
Ryoichi Sasagawa
(b. c. 1899). President of Japan Motorboat Association and philanthropist. Donates large sums of money in support of various martial arts including aikido. The AIKIKAI HOMBU DOJO and YOSHINKAN AIKIDO are regular...
Tony Sargeant
(b. 2 February 1950). Aikido instructor. 6th Dan Aikikai, and Aikikai adviser to Takemusu Iwama Aikido Europe, which evolved from Traditional Aikido Iwama Style (founded 1991). First studied aikido in 1973. Received...
Mitsugi Saotome 五月女貢
(b. 1937). Aikikai Shihan. Began practice at the Kuwamori Dojo in Tokyo in October 1954. He entered the AIKIKAI HOMBU DOJO as an UCHIDESHI in April 1961 and remained as an instructor until departing for the U. S. in...