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Shuji Maruyama

(b. 1 April 1940). 6th dan Aikikai. Graduate in economics from Nihon University. Entered the AIKIKAI HOMBU DOJO as an UCHIDESHI in the late 1950s. Dispatched to Cleveland, Ohio in March 1966 and relocated to...

Mutsuro Nakazono

(also Masahiro) (20 December 1918-8 October 1994). 7th dan Aikikai. Acupuncturist and Oriental medicine practitioner. B. Kagoshima Prefecture. Strong judo background. Relocated to France in 1961 as an official delegate...

Hisashi Noma 野間恒

(24 April 1909-7 November 1938). Kendoka. Son of Seiji NOMA, founder of Kodansha Publishing Company. One of Japan’s top kendoka during the mid-1930s and a friend and contemporary of Kiyoshi NAKAKURA. In May 1934...

Second Omoto Incident

Occurred on 8 December 1935 with the Japanese military government again suppressing the OMOTO RELIGION and destroying much of its property. Onisaburo DEGUCHI along with his wife, Sumi, and several other Omoto leaders...