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1 High Ranking Aikikai Yudansha List

High Ranking Aikikai Yudansha List

This page shows Aikikai yudansha ranked 6th Dan & above and who may be still living amongst us. The list is incomplete and requires updating and verification from time to time.

The yudansha are listed by ranks, names (males are denoted by Mr, females by Ms.), dates of birth (if available)and current locations (dojo/city/cty).

9th Dan

Okumura, Shigenobu (Mr) (1922) Tokyo, Japan (Aikikai Hombu Dojo) (Demised 12 Aug 2008)
Tada, Hiroshi (Mr) (1929) Tokyo, Japan (Aikikai Hombu Dojo)
Tanaka, Shigeho (Mr) (1928) Tokyo, Japan (Aikikai, Former Head of Shiseikan Dojo at Meiji Jingu Shrine)

8th Dan

Abe, Seiseki (Mr) (1915) Osaka, Japan
Anno, Motomichi (Mr) (1931) Shingu, Japan
Asai, Katsuaki (Mr) (1942) Duesseldorf, Germany
Chiba, Kazuo (Mr) (1940) San Diego, California (Birankai)
Endo, Seishiro (Mr) (1942) Tokyo, Japan (Aikikai Hombu Dojo)
Fujita, Masatake (Mr) (1937) Tokyo, Japan (Aikikai Hombu Dojo)
Ichihachi, Norihiko (Mr) (?) Tokyo, Japan (Aikikai Hombu Dojo)
Iimura, I (Mr) (?) Tokyo, Japan (Aikikai Hombu Dojo)
Inaba, Minoru (Mr) (1944) Tokyo, Japan (Aikikai, Head of Shiseikan dojo within Meji Jingu shrine)
Ishida, S (Mr) (?) Hawaii Aikikai
Ishimoto, Tomio (Mr) (?) Kumano Juku
Isoyama, Hiroshi (Mr) (1937) Iwama
Kato, Hiroshi (Mr) (1934) Tokyo, Japan (Aikikai Hombu Dojo)
Kawahara, Yukio (Mr) (1940) Burnaby, Canada
Kawai, Reishin (Mr) (1931) Sao Paulo, Brazil
Kobayashi, Yasuo (Mr) (1936) Tokyo
Kurita, Minoru (Mr) (1943) Kawagoe
Masuda, Seijuro (Mr) (1936) Tokyo, Japan (Aikikai Hombu Dojo)
Omura, H (Mr) (?) Renseikai
Saotome, Mitsugi (Mr) (1937) Myakka City, Florida (ASU)
Sasaki, Masando (Mr) (1929) Tokyo, Japan (Aikikai Hombu Dojo)
Sugano, Seiichi (Mr) (1939) New York, NY (USAF)
Suganuma, Morito (Mr) (1942) Fukuoka, Japan
Takamoto, K (Mr) (?) Suizenji Dojo, Kumamoto
Takeda, Yoshinobu (Mr) (1940) Aikido Kenkyukai International, Kamakura
Tamura, Nobuyoshi (Mr) (1933) Maximin, France
Tomita, Seiji (Mr) (?) Osaka Aikikai
Tomita, Takeji (Mr) (1942) Takemusu Aiki, Stockholm
Watanabe, Nobuyuki (Mr) (1930) Tokyo, Japan (Aikikai Hombu Dojo)
Yamada, Yoshimitsu (Mr) (1938) New York, NY (USAF)

7th Dan

Abrams, Michael (Mr) (?) New York, NY (USAF)
Alaoui, M'barek (Mr) (?) Morocco
Aoyagi, Robert (Mr) (?) Hawaii Aikikai
Arai, Toshiyuki (Mr) (?) Gunma
Berthiaume, Claude (Mr) (?) Canada (USAF)
Bernath, Peter (Mr) (?) Florida (USAF)
Blaize, Gérard (Mr) (1946) Paris
Cottier, Ken (Mr) (?) Liverpool UK (Demised 9 Jun 2008)
Doran, Frank (Mr) (?) San Francisco (CAA)
Demko, Andy (Mr) (?) Pennsylvania (USAF)
Evenås, Ulf (Mr) (?) Gothenborg, Sweden
Frager, Robert (Mr) (?) California (CAA)
Fujimoto, Yoji (Mr) (1948) Milan, Italy
Fujitani, Miyako (Ms) (?) Osaka, Japan
Fukakusa, Motohiro (Mr) (?) Bangkok, Thailand
Hagihara, Shigemi "Eddie" (Mr) (1935) Long Island Aikido Association (USAF)
Hari, S (Mr) (?) Kodenkan
Haruyoshi, Horikoshi (Mr) (?) Kobayashi dojo
Hatayama, Kengo (Mr) (?) Kobayashi dojo
Hermansson, Jan (Mr) (1942) Stockholm, Sweden
Hidaka, H (Mr) (?) Iwate Prefecture
Hirao, Richard (Mr) (?) Hawaii Aikikai
Hirosawa, Hideo (Mr) (1937) Iwama
Hosokawa, Hideki (Mr) (1942) Sardinia, Italy
Igarashi, Kazuo (Mr) (1946) Igarashi Dojo
Ikeda, Hiroshi (Mr) (1950) Boulder, CO (ASU)
Ikeda, Masatomi (Mr) (1940) Zurich, Switzerland
Inagaki, Shigemi (Mr) (1946) Iwama
Ishigaki, Haruo (Mr) (?) Kobayashi dojo
Izumi, T (Mr) (?) Osaka
Kanetsuka, Minoru (Mr) (1939) London, UK
Kawasaki, Hironori (Mr) Japan
Kitahira, Masakazu (Mr) (?) Hiroshima
Kitaura, Yasufusa (Mr) (?) Madrid, Spain
Konigberg, Harvey (Mr) (?) Woodstock Aikido
Koyama, Kenji (Mr) (?) Tokyo
Koyama, Teruo (Mr) (?) Kyoto Japan Kyoto Aikikdi Head Instructor
Kubota, Ikuhiro (Mr) (?) Nara Juku, Osaka
Kumagai, kenji (Mr) (?) Tanabe
Kubo, Robert T (Mr) (?) Hawaii Aikikai
Lee, Paul N C (Mr) (?) Taiwan (Demised January 2008)
Mibukawa, G (Mr) (?) Ryobi
Miyamoto, Tsuruzo (Mr) (1953) Tokyo, Japan (Aikikai Hombu Dojo)
Moriyama, Donald (Mr) (?) Hawaii Aikikai
Nadeau, Robert (Mr) (1940) San Francisco (CAA)
Noel, Frank (Mr) (?) France
Nomoto, Jun (Mr) (?) Tokyo, Japan
Obata, Osamu (Mr) (?) Toronto, Canada
Otani, Kazue (Mr) (?) Tokyo, Japan
Osawa, Hayato (Mr) (1951) Tokyo, Japan (Aikikai Hombu Dojo)
Sawada, Toshiharu (Mr) (?) Nagoya
Seagal, Steven (Mr) (?) Los Angelas
Seki, Shoji (Mr) (1950) Tokyo, Japan (Aikikai Hombu Dojo)
Shibata, Ichiro (Mr) (1950) Phoenix, AZ (Dojinkai)
Shibata, Koichi (Mr) (?) Tokyo
Shiohira, Hideki (Mr) (?) Castro Valley, CA
Shimamoto, K (Mr) (?) Toyonaka Shosenji dojo
Stevens, John (Mr) (?) Sendai, Japan
Sugawara, Tetsutaka (Mr) (1941) Machida-shi, Tokyo
Takase, Nobuo (Mr) (1946) Auckland, New Zealand
Takeguchi, Clyde (Mr) (?) Maryland, USA (USAF)
Takemori, Yasuhiko (Mr) (?) Japan
Takezawa, Etsuo (Mr) (?) Tokyo, Japan (Aikikai Hombu Dojo)
Tissier, Christian (Mr) (1951) Paris, France
Todoroki, T (Mr) (?) Hanamikawa
Toriumi, Koichi (Mr) (?) Tokyo, Japan (Aikikai Hombu Dojo)
Tsuboi, Takeki (Mr) (?) Waseda University, Tokyo
Urata, T (Mr) (?) Kashiwa
Wada, A (Mr) (?) Nagoya
Waite, Donovan (Mr) (?) Pennsylvania, USA (USAF)
Watabiki, Yoshifumi (Mr) (1937) Iwama
Watanabe, T (Mr) (?) Mitaka
Watanabe, Yoshikazu (Mr) (?) Tokyo, Japan
Witt, William WilliamWitt (Mr) San Francisco
Yamada, Hironobu (Mr) (?) Hokusou Aikikai, Narita
Yamada, Jun (Mr) (1944) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Yamashima, Takeshi (Mr) (?) Minami Tanaka Dojo
Yasuno, Masatoshi (Mr) (1948) Tokyo, Japan (Aikikai Hombu Dojo)
Yokota, Yoshiaki (Mr) (?) Tokyo, Japan (Aikikai Hombu Dojo)

6th Dan

Aegerter, Jean-Claude (Mr) (?) Aikikai Swiss
Aldenklint, Urban (Mr) (1954) Iyasaka dojo, Sweden
Alexander, David (Mr) (?) Westlake California
Andersson, Lars-Göran (Mr) Torsby, Sweden
Arnold, Jack (Mr) (?) Burbank, CA (Birankai)
Avy, Jean-Paul (Mr) (?) Manosque, France
Bardet, Jacques (Mr) (?) Paris, France
Batobalani, R Jun (Mr) (?) DSAS Group Philippines
Baumgartner, Wolfgang (Mr) USA and Germany TAA
Becart, Michel (Mr) (?) Paris, France
Belt, Dennis (Mr) (?) Ventura, CA (Birankai)
Ben-Meir, Eitan (Mr) (?) Aiki-Israel (Aikikai)
Benedetti, Stephane (Mr) Arenys d'Amunt (Spain)
Beringer, Elizabeth (Ms) (?) San Diego Aikikai (Birankai)
Bernath, Penny Strake (Ms) (?) Florida Aikikai (USAF)
Bieri, Larry (Mr) (?) Finger Lakes Aikido, NY (USAF)
Bleier, Bernard (Mr) Toulouse (France)
Bluhm, Darell (Mr) (?) Siskiyou Aikikai, CA (Birankai)
Bookman, Bruce (Mr) (?) Seattle (USAF)
Brady, Peter (Mr) (?) UK
Britton, Barbara (Ms)- (?) Framingham Aikikai
Bull, Wagner José (Mr) - São Paulo, Brazil. Brazil Aikikai
Caloz, Bernard (Mr) (?) Aikikai Swiss
Carleton, Thurston (Mr) (?) ? (ASU)
Carangi, Anthony (Mr) (?) Florida Aikikai
Champion, Archie (Mr) (?) Central Coast Aikikai (Birankai)
Chang, George (Mr) (?) Ueshiba Aikido Association, Singapore
Chemin, Joel (Mr) Toulouse, France
Choate, Kevin (Mr) (?) Chicago, IL (ASU)
Cooper, Robin (Ms) (?) Madison, WI (ASU)
Corallini, Paolo N. (Mr) (?) Takemusu Aikido Association Italy
Crane, Coryl (Ms) (?) North County Aikikai (Birankai)
Cummins, Jim (Mr) (?) San Diego Aikikai (Birankai)
DiAnne, Lorraine (Ms) (?) Springfield, MA (Birankai)
Esposito, Brunello (Mr) (?) Aikikai Italia
Ezra, Terry (Mr) (1945) Komyokan Aikido Association
Faust, Irving (Mr) (?) Albany, NY, (USAF)
Farrell, David (Mr) (?) Boston, MA (USAF)
Feder, Kayla (Ms) (?) Berkerley, CA (CAA)
Firestone, Douglas (Mr) (?) Aikido of Westchester, NY (USAF)
Fleshler, Aki (Mr) (?) Multnomah Aikikai (Birankai)
Friedrich, Karl (Mr) (?) Aikikai Germany
Fujimaki, Hiroshi (Mr) (?) Tokyo, Japan (Aikikai Hombu Dojo)
Funakoshi, M (Mr) (?) Yamagata
Furuya, Kensho (Mr) (?) Los Angelas (Demised)
Gambell, Tom (Mr) (?) Oakland, CA (CAA)
George, Clint (Mr) (?) Helena, Montana
Gleason, William (Mr) (1946) Somerville, MA (ASU)
Goldsbury, Peter (Mr) (?) Hiroshima
Goto, Hans (Mr) San Rafael, VA (USA) TAA
Gomita, Y (Ms.) (?) Tanabe
Hall, Sioux (Ms) (?) Harvard Aikido Club (USAF)
Halprin, David (Mr) (?) Framingham, MA (USAF)
Hara, Yukiko (Ms)- (?) Chicago, IL (ASU)
Hasegawa, Hiroyuki (Mr) (?) Kobayashi dojo
Hayashi, Cyndy (Ms) (?) Redwood City, CA (CAA)
Hayata, M (Mr) (?) Wagokan
Hayward, Keith (Mr) (?) UK Aikikai
Heiny, Mary (Ms) (?) Seattle, WA
Helminen, Jukka (Mr), Helsinki, Finland
Hirosawa, H (Mr) (?) Ibaraki
Hofmeister, Tres (Mr) (?) Boulder, CO (ASU)
Holiday, Linda (Ms) (1952) Santa Cruz, CA
Hooker, Dennis (Mr) (?) Orlando, FL (ASU)
Horii, Etsuji (Mr) (?) Sanda Dojo, Kobe
Hosokawa, Hedeki (Mr) (1942) Rome, Italy
Hreha, Frank (Mr) (?) Columbus, Ohio (ASU)
Hultgren, Raso (Ms) (?) Missoula, MT (ASU)
Ichizuka, I (Mr) (?) Omiya Dojo
Inaba, Yasuhisa (Mr) (?) Calgary, Canada (Demised Jan 2009)
Irie, Yoshinobu (Mr) (?) Tokyo, Japan (Aikikai Hombu Dojo)
Iseri, Nobu (Mr) (?) Ventura, CA (Birankai)
Ishiyama, Isshu (Mr) (?) Vancouver, Canada
Joannes, Jean-Claude (Mr) (?) St. Maur des Fosses, France
Jones, Gordon (Mr) (?) UK
Jones, Duane (Mr) (?) Sarasota, FL (ASU)
Jordan, Christine (Ms) (?) New York, NY (ASU)
Kanazawa, Takeshi (Mr) (?) Tokyo, Japan (Aikikai Hombu Dojo)
Kang, Paul (Mr) (?) New York, NY (ASU) (Demised)
Kann, Edgar (Mr) (?) Suffolk Institute for Eastern Studies
Katagiri, Yukiko (Ms) (?) Cornell Aikido Club (USAF)
Kaufman, Steven (Mr) (?) Open Sky Aikikai (USAF)
Kawaji, M (Mr) (?) Wako Dojo
Knight, Barry (Mr) (?) Takemusu Aikido, Melbourne, Australia
Kobayashi, Hiroaki (Mr) (1965) Kobayashi dojo
Kobayashi, Yukimitsu (Mr) (?) Tokyo, Japan (Aikikai Hombu Dojo)
Kurata, Katsutoshi (Mr) (?) Buenos Aires, Argentina
Kuribayashi, Takanori (Mr) (?) Tokyo, Japan (Aikikai Hombu Dojo)
Kurita, Yutaka (Mr) (1940) Mexico City, Mexico
Kuroiwa, Yoshio (Mr) (?) Tokyo
Lane, Grady (Mr) (?) Brevard Aikikai
Laisi, Juhani (Mr), Jarvenpaa, Finland
Ledyard, George (Mr) (1952) Aikido Eastside Bellevue, WA (ASU)
Lee, Philip (Mr) (?) Aikido Shinju Kai, Singapore
Lehrman, Hal (Mr) (?) Aikido of Park Slope
Leisinger, Karl-Friedrich (Dr) (?) Aikikai Deutschland
Levitt, Larry (Mr) (?) Valley Aikido
Lindén, Börje (Mr), (1954) Iyasaka Dojo, Stockholm, Sweden
Linden, Dan (Mr) (?) Orlando, FL (ASU)
Linden, Paul (Mr) (?) Aikido of Columbus (USAF)
Lo, George So Joe (Mr) (?) Sydney, Australia
Löpke, Dieter (Mr) (?) Düsseldorf
Lynn, Elizabeth (Ms) (?) Eastshore Aikikai (Birankai)
Lyons, George (Mr) (?) Bucks County Aikido (Birankai)
Marsden, Kenneth (Mr) (?) Leeds, England (BAF)
Matlock, Dan (Mr) (?) New School Aikido, Stockon, CA, USA
McClarence, Ian (Mr) (?) Newcastle, UK (BAF)
McGinnis,Charles (Mr) (1950) Aikido of Cincinnati (USAF)
McPeck, Steve (Mr) (?) Sarasota, FL (ASU)
Megann, Peter (Mr) (1934) Oxford, England (BAF)
Mehter, Ariff (Mr) (?) Aikido of Cincinnati (USAF)
Mehter, Yousuf (Mr) (?) Aikido of Central NY (USAF)
Messisco, Daniel (Mr) (?) (ASU)
Messores, John (Mr) St Petersberg, FL (ASU)
Minegishi, Mutsuko (Ms.) (1940) Guam
Miyazawa, Kenzo (Mr) (1937) Buenos Aires, Argentina
Mohammed Haneef (Mr) (?) Aikikai Malaysia, Kuching, Malaysia
Moock, Don (Mr) (?) Washington, DC (ASU)
Morgan, Donald (Mr) (?) Port Talbot, UK (BAF)
Honzawa, S (Mr) Osaka aikikai
Murashige, Mark (Mr) (?) San Diego, California (Birankai)
Nakao, Shingo (Mr) (?) Seibukan Dojo, Kobe
Nakayama, James (Mr) (?) California, (AAA)
Nemeth, Joseph (Mr) (?) Aikido of Nassau County
Nemoto, Hiroki (Mr) (1950) Iwama
Ng, Harry (Mr) (?) Aikikai Singapore
Nishida, Makoto (Mr) (?) Sao Paulo, Brazil
Nomura, Gloria Eiko (Ms) (?) San Francisco, CA (Birankai)
Nomura, Kazuo (Mr) Osaka aikikai
Nour, Juba (Mr) (?) Aikido of Manhattan, NY (Birankai)
Numata, Masashi (Mr) (?) Princeton Aikikai, NJ (USAF)
Ohwada, Yukimasa (Mr) (1957) Iwama
Okamoto, Yoko (Ms) (?) Kyoto, Japan
Okimura, Zenko (Mr) (?) Delaware
Okuyama, T (Mr) (?) Albuquerque, NM (Dojinkai)
Olsen, Bjørn Eirik (Mr) (1955) Norwegian Aikido Federation
Ozeki, Jane (Ms) (?) New York, NY
Page, Charlie (Mr) (?) Baltimore, MD (ASU)
Palmer, Wendy (Ms) (?) Mill Valley, CA (ASU)
Pashenz, Howard (Mr) (?) Suffolk Institute for Eastern Studies
Pellerin, Claude (Mr) (?) Marseille, France
Phong, Thong Dang (Mr) (1935) Westminster, CA
Poor, Chas (Mr) (?) Washington Dc (ASU)
Pranin, Stanley (Mr) (?) Las Vegas
Ralfe-Stelander, Cecilia (Ms) (?), Uppsala Aikikai, Sweden
Rautila, Harri (Mr), Helsinki, Finland
Reynosa, Larry (Mr) (?) Ventura, CA
Sakamoto, Gordon (Mr) (?) Arlington, Virginia
Sakanashi, Masafuni (Mr) (?) Buenos Aires, Argentina
Saotome, Patty (Ms) (?) Sarasota, FL (ASU)
Sato, Andy (Mr) (?) Chicago, IL (AWA)
Shepard, Tina (Ms) (?) New York, NY
Shewan, Malcom Tiki (Mr) (?) Cannes, France
Shibata, M (Ms) (?) Phoenix, AZ (Dojinkai)
Shikanai, Ichitami (Mr) (?) Brazil
Shimamoto, K (Mr) (?) Toyama
Shindo, Yoshiko (Ms) (?) Tokyo
Silenius, Petteri (Mr), Turku, Finland
Smith, Collins (Mr) (?) Bermuda Aikikai
Smith, Danielle (Ms) (?) Monterey, CA
Smith, Philip (Mr) (1958) UK
Solomon, Yahe (Mr) (?) Bozeman, MT (Birankai)
Sparby, Cenneth (Mr) (?), Uppsala Aikikai, Sweden
Stenudd Stefan (Mr) (1954) Enighet dojo, Malmö, Sweden
Stier, David (Mr) (?) Green River Aikido
Stone, John (Mr) (?) Madison, WI (ASU)
Suga, Toshiro (Mr) (?) Brest, France
Sugawara, Shigeru (Mr) (?) Tokyo, Japan (Aikikai Hombu Dojo)
Suma, Takeo (Mr) (?) Iwama
Suwa, Masatoshi (Mr) (?) Kobayashi dojo
Suzuki, J (Mr) (?) Suzuki Dojo
Suzuki Yasuyuki, (Mr) (1954) Fujisawa, Japan (Aikikai/AKI)
Takahashi, Francis (Mr) Aikido Academy USA
Takamizo, Mariko (Ms.) (?) Tokyo, Japan (Aikikai Hombu Dojo)
Takayasu, Saburo (Mr) (1948) Takemusu Aiki, Sydney
Tamagni, Peter (Mr) (?) Vineland Aikikai (USAF)
Tamminen, Kari (Mr), Salo, Finland
Tanaka, Hiroaki (Mr) Osaka Aikikai
Tanemori, M (Mr) (?) Hiroshima
Tatoian, Dennis (Mr) USA and Phillipines TAA
Tazaki, Masanda (Mr) Los Angeles, CA
Teshiba, Terri (Ms) (?) Albuquerque, NM (Birankai)
Tissier, Micheline (Ms) (?) France
Tom, Bernice (Ms) (?) San Diego, California
Tremblay, Geraldine (Ms) (?) Santa Barbara, CA
Trimmer, Peter (Mr) (?) Washington, DC (ASU)
Tsuji, N (Mr) (?) Choshi, Japan
Vandrogenbroeck, Rene (Mr) (?) Le Havre, France
Varjan, Kristina (Ms) (?) Kohala, HI (Birankai)
Vazquez, Pablo (Mr) (?) Albuquerque, NM (Birankai)
Vecchio, Linda Lee (Ms) (?) Cleveland, OH
Wada, Jack (Mr) (?) San Jose, CA
Wagener, Richard (Mr) (?) Palm Beach Aikikai
Weber, Chuck (Mr) (?) Baltimore, MD (ASU)
Whited, Wendy (Ms) (?) Beecher, IL (ASU)
Wight, Norman (Mr) (?) San Diego, CA (Birankai)
Wolk, Susan (Ms) (?) Northampton, MA
Wong, Frank Loi Sing (Mr) (?) Aikido Curacao
Yokoyama, S (Mr) (?) Akita Prefecture
Zarelli, Gina (Ms) (?) New York, NY
Zimet, Paul (Mr) (?) New York Aikikai
Zimmermann, Robert (Mr) (?) Toronto, Canada

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