(b. 4 October 1950). 7th dan Yoshinkan Aikido. B. Kanagawa Prefecture. Yoshinkan Aikido Shihan. Began training in 1969 at the Yoshinkan Aikido Yoyogi Dojo. Traveled to New Zealand in 1974 and then in 1979 accompanied...
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Josh GoldMark R. Crapo
(b. 6 August 1954). 7th dan, Kancho of Seidokan Aikido; 1st dan judo. Doctor of Oriental medicine. Began aikido training in 1975 at University of Hawaii. Primary aikido instruction received from Roderick KOBAYASHI with...
Yasuaki Deguchi 出口和明
(15 August 1930-18 June 2002). Eldest grandson of Omoto co-founder Onisaburo DEGUCHI. Entered Waseda University in 1952 and completed half his course. Later worked in a variety of occupations. In 1953, using the pen...
Tadashi Abe 阿部正
(1926-23 November 1984). Graduate in law of Waseda University. Began aikido in Osaka in August 1942 and then spent time as an UCHIDESHI in the IWAMA Dojo during World War II. Abe relocated to France in 1952 to study law...
Aikido Kyogi 合気競技
Competition aikido; a term sometimes used in Japanese to refer to TOMIKI AIKIDO developed by Waseda University professor Kenji TOMIKI.
Zenzaburo Akazawa 赤沢善三郎
(c. 1920-2007). Entered KOBUKAN DOJO as an UCHIDESHI c. 1933. Name appears in KASHIMA SHINTO-RYU enrollment records along with that of Morihei UESHIBA dated 16 May 1937. Interviewed AN#48.