(b. 1939-28 March 2004). 8th dan Aikikai. B. in Manchuria. Aikikai Shihan. An UCHIDESHI at the AIKIKAI HOMBU DOJO from c. 1959 to 1966. Dispatched to Boston, Massachusetts, USA in 1966. Active as a shihan and technical director in the Eastern Region of the UNITED STATES AIKIDO FEDERATION. Joint sponsor of a large summer camp held in Massachusetts. Also a practitioner of iaido.