(b. 7 September 1948). 7th dan Aikikai. Aikikai Shihan. B. Kanazawa Prefecture. First practiced aikido as a university student in 1967. Heavily influenced by Seigo YAMAGUCHI. Has traveled to numerous countries...
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Josh GoldYoshiteru Yoshimura
(Dates unknown). Member of the Asahi News dojo who studied under both Morihei Ueshiba and Sokaku TAKEDA in Osaka from c. 1933 to 1939. Awarded the KYOJU DAIRI by Sokaku in October 1936 in Osaka.
Nobuyuki Watanabe 渡辺信之
(b. 1930). 7th dan Aikikai. B. Miyazaki Prefecture. Aikikai Shihan. Entered the AIKIKAI HOMBU DOJO as an UCHIDESHI in the early 1960s. Featured in two Japanese television programs entitled Do Sports, 1986 and April 1987...
Antony Yates
(b. 28 February 1947). 8th dan Yoshinkan Aikido. Yoshinkan Aikido Shibucho for the U. K. Senior schoolmaster. Began training in judo at 1961 and aikido in 1969. Studied YOSHINKAN AIKIDO with Jang Eun Yu from early to...
Yoshinkan Aikido 養神館合気道
The name of the school of aikido established by Gozo SHIODA in 1955. Shioda adopted the name used by his father earlier for the family dojo. The techniques of Yoshinkan Aikido strongly reflect the pre-war training of...
Kiyoshi Watatani
Martial arts historian. Co-author of the massive reference work Bugei Ryuha Daijiten (Encyclopedia of Martial Arts Schools). This Japanese-language work, published in 1978, contains a record of most of those persons...