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Katsuaki Asai (born 1942 in
Tokyo, Japan Tokyo, officially the Tokyo Metropolis, is the capital of Japan, capital and List of cities in Japan, most populous city in Japan. With a population of over 14 million in the city proper in 2023, it is List of largest cities, one of the most ...
) is a Japanese
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teacher, the founder of the Aikikai in Germany and the highest-ranked teacher in that country and teacher of aikido in Slovakia. Asai started training under aikido's founder
Morihei Ueshiba was a Japanese martial artist and founder of the Japanese martial art, martial art of aikido. He is often referred to as "the founder" or , "Great Teacher". The son of a landowner from Tanabe, Wakayama, Tanabe, Ueshiba studied a number of ...
aged 13, at the Hombu dojo in
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, and continued during his studies at
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. He was sent to Germany by Kisshomaru Ueshiba in 1965 to teach aikido, and has lived in the country ever since. His first occupation was to teach aikido to policemen in
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, and he now runs a school in
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. In the early days of German aikido, Asai clashed with the Deutscher Judobund (DJB) over whether his art should be included under their organisation. In this, he was opposed by Gerd Wischnewski, another student of Ueshiba, who was also a prominent member of the DJB. Although the DJB retained an aikido division, Asai remained independent of them and continued to operate as part of the Aikikai. He retains the German trademark on the term "Aikikai."Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt


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Living people 1942 births German aikidoka Japanese aikidoka Martial artists from Tokyo {{Aikido-bio-stub