(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 Gozo SHIODA to the U. K. and France. In 1989, he conducted a joint seminar in England for practitioners from the U. K. , France and West Germany.