Yasuhisa Shioda

Education

He graduated from the economics faculty of Chuo University and lived in England for 3 years.

Career

Their father, Gozo Shioda, founded Yoshinkan aikido. He was Kancho of the headquarters dojo in Shinjuku, Tokyo and headed both the All Japan Yoshinkan Aikido Federation and the International Yoshinkai Aikido Federation until he left the organization in 2012. He actively teaches aikido in Japan, through published books and travels throughout the world.

Early Life and Yasuhisa Shioda started practicing Aikido at the age of thirteen, training every day. he graduated in 1971 from the Economics Department of Chuo University in Tokyo.

From 1980 he spent three years in England, and helped establish the basis for the spread of aikido overseas. After returning to Japan he concentrated on teaching young people, especially nursery school children, originating a unique instruction method that encouraged them to develop their character through the practice of aikido.

He also teaches at community centers. After Gozo Shioda"s death in 1994, in order to spread his father"s legacy throughout the world, he has been teaching aikido and has also become an author

In 2007, he became the new Yoshinkan Kancho, and also the Third Soke of Yoshinkan Aikido.

Achievements

• As a member of the Yoshinkan Aikido Dojo he continued to undergo aikido training with his father the founder of Yoshinkan Gozo Shioda Sensei, and spread aikido by teaching it in universities, and to police departments, and various organizations.