Career
His personal students included Seishiro Endo, Yoshinobu Takeda, Ichiro Shibata and Christian Tissier. Seigo Yamaguchi was born April 13, 1924 in Fukuoka, Japan. After his early education, he entered the navy where he was eventually to carry out a Kamikaze suicide mission, but was saved by the end of the World World War World War II He was introduced to Morihei Ueshiba in 1950, and entered the Aikikai in 1951.
In 1958 he was sent to Burma to teach aikido to the army.
Beginning in 1961 he again taught at the Aikikai Hombu Dojo. He also taught at his own dojo and at Meiji University.
He taught extensively overseas, especially in France where he had a strong following and taught every year until 1995.
