CAMP ZAMA, Japan (Aug. 13, 2019) -- Yotaro Mukai has taught aikido at the Yano Fitness Center here for 21 years, and he welcomes everyone. For those who want to learn, Mukai offers classes at ...

Most of us say we prefer peace to conflict, but the ways we try to attain it can ignite disputes. So people have a hard time imagining how a martial art might advance peace. Yet, when Morihei Ueshiba ...

Kai Frazier (from left), Naomi Farnsworth, Reece Ugalino and Brianna Leval are shown at a Aug. 31 award ceremony for winners in the Maui Ki-Aikido Youth Taigi Competition. Twenty-seven Maui Ki-Aikido ...

Over the decades, Sensei Pickering Shihan has travelled extensively around the world to study and share Aikido and self-defence, training under some of the most respected masters, including Tony ...

Of the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning. —From T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets (3) Donald N. Levine was my aikido Sensei, professor, boss, mentor, and friend. He changed my life, helped ...

When Bay Marin Aikido Sensei Hans Goto first began training Sausalito resident Simone Wedell 30 years ago, he never thought she would stick it out. “She didn’t seem like she would last,” said Goto, 65 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Gaku Homma is the owner of Domo restaurant. You may have eaten his country-style Japanese food. Perhaps in the garden, by the koi pond. If not, consider this ...

When Mitsugi Saotome walked into Sarasota’s 12th Street Dojo on a warm evening in mid-May, he looked like he had walked straight out of a Japanese Western. Small in stature, he wore a wide-brimmed ...