Thomas H. Makiyama

Keijutsukai Aikido and the Keijutsukai International Federation (Keijutsukai Kokusai Renmei), based in Tokyo

U.S. 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.^[1]

dan (1977) in Yoshinkan aikido and a certification as shihan. He is believed to be the only American with that distinction at the time.^{[citation needed}

Black Belt magazine. Makiyama was the author of one of the first books in English on Aikido^[2][3] in 1960 and the book Keijutsukai Aikido in 1983. In Hawaii, Makiyama was instrumental in forming the first official branch of the Aikido Yoshinkai outside Japan, at the personal request of the late Gozo Shioda, a close friend and professional acquaintance since 1948.^{[citation needed}