Career
The organization teaches Keijutsukai Aikido and Keijutsu (a specialized method of defensive tactics for law enforcement personnel). Makiyama started budō at the age of 18 in 1947 after enlisting in the United States. Army. He was sent to Japan and was stationed in Yokohama, where he was assigned to the 8th Army’s military police criminal investigation division.
At the Isezaki-cho police station in Yokohama he started to train in police judo.
Over the years, he studied judo, jujutsu, Gōjū-ryū karate and aikido among other budō arts He is believed to be the only American with that distinction at the time.
He also contributed to a number of articles for martial arts publications such as Black Belt magazine. Makiyama was the author of one of the first books in English on Aikido in 1960 and the book Keijutsukai Aikido in 1983.
Makiyama created the Keijutsukai (Police/Security Techniques Association) in February 1980 after training as an independent system commenced during the early part of 1979.
He was the Keijutsukai Director until his death on September 9, 2005.