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Kenji Tomiki (冨木謙冶, 1900-1979) was one of the early students of Morihei Ueshiba and also of Jigoro Kano, the founder of Judo. In 1925, the year he joined Morihei Ueshiba, he obtained 5th Dan in Judo. He went on to be awarded the first 8th Dan in Aikido (1942) and an 8th Dan in Judo. He taught both Judo and Aikido for many years at Waseda University and it was here that he formulated his theories concerning both kata based training methods and a particular form of free-style fighting which would put him at odds with much, but not all, of the Aikido world.

In 1974 he founded the Japan Aikido Association from an earlier organization of the same name to promote his theories. He called his style Shodokan and a honbu dojo, dedicated solely for the study of Aikido, had been built in 1967 in Osaka.