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Fuku Shidoin 副指導員
Assistant instructor. The lowest of three instructor levels instituted by the AIKIKAI HOMBU at the time of the creation of the INTERNATIONAL AIKIDO FEDERATION. Corresponds approximately to 2nd and 3rd dan. See SHIDOIN...
Itsuo Haba はばいつお
(b. 8 August 1955). 6th dan Tomiki Aikido-JAA, 1990 [rank authenticated]. High school English teacher. Graduate of Waseda University, where he began aikido under Kenji TOMIKI and Hideo OHBA in 1974 as a member of the...
Mary Heiny
(b. c. 1942). 5th dan Aikikai. B. A. in Japanese Studies from University of Washington. Fluent in Japanese. Studied for several years in Tokyo and Shingu under Michio HIKITSUCHI in late 1960s and early 1970s. One of the...
