Terada Kiyoyuki, Saikoo Shihan, was born
on March 20, 1922 in Nagasaki, Kyushu, Japan. Below,
you will find a brief chronology of events in his life.
This starts in April of 1934, when he graduated from
the Minami Kushiyama grade school and entered the Kaisei
Junior High School where he took up his first martial
art of Kendo. Many thanks to Terada Shihan and the Yoshinkan
Seiseikai International Committee for supplying the
following information and to Leslie Mills Sensei for
her assistance with the formatting and editing. Enjoy!
June, 1937: Terada Shihan , age 15, wins Judo championship
and receives an award for best Judo player of the year.
He had been scouted by Judo Shihan at that time and became
an uchi-deshi at the Shubukan dojo and in July of 1937,
while a student of Nagasaki prefecture Junior High school,
he participated in the school Judo tournament.
April, 1940: At the age of 18, Terada Shihan entered
Takushoku University, where he joined the school Karate
club. In 1941 he enters the Shidojuku University dormitory
where he meetsShioda Gozo Soke. During the period between
1940 and 1943, Terada Shihan had learned Sumo from Akutsugawa
Sensei, Judo from Sone Sensei, and Kashimaryu Jujitsu from
Osugi Sensei.
December, 1943: Terada Shihan, age 21, joins the
army because of the ongoing war and in March of 1944, received
orders to go to the Air Force academy to become an aircraft
mechanic. Terada Shihan reported to Kumamoto Airfield in
1944, where he engaged in aircraft maintenance until August
of 1945. At that time he heard the official announcement
(in Kumamoto) that the war was over. Two days later, on
August 17, he returned home to Nagasaki.
1948: Terada Shihan, age 26, moves to Tokyo to work
for Miyakoshi company. Two years later, in 1950, he goes
to work for the military police in Yokohama. That same year,
Terada Shihan started training at the Aikikai Honbu dojo
and took lessons from Ueshiba Morehei O'Sensei and Ueshiba
Kisshomaru Doshu.
1952: Terada Shihan, age 29, conducts an Aikido
training seminar for NKK Company and 85 police stations
in Tokyo, together with Shioda Gozo Soke. Then, in
1955, he conducts Aikido training for the Police Department
in Yokohama and Camp Drake in Saitama.
July 1955: Terada Shihan, age 31, co-founded Yoshinkan
Aikido with Shioda Gozo Soke.
1957: Terada Shihan, age 33, meets US Senator Robert
Kennedy and Prime Minister Nakasone at the Yoshinkan Honbu
dojo.
1961: Terada Shihan, age 37, leaves Tokyo and starts
teaching Aikido at the military base in Yokosuka, where
he meets and starts to train Amos Parker Sensei, who had
started his training under Noguchi Yukio Sensei.
1967: Terada Shihan, age 43, makes the first of
several trips outside Japan to conduct an Aikido seminar
in Honolulu, Hawaii.
1977: Terada Shihan begins to teach Amos Parker
Sensei again after his retirement from the U.S. Navy.
Terada Shihan would train Parker Sensei for another 20 years
after his returned to Yokosuka, from Guam.
1990: Terada Shihan, age 66, receives his 9th degree
(Ku dan) from Shioda Gozo Soke. He also receives the title
of "Saikoo Shihan" of Yoshinkan Aikido. Today
he is the president of National Yoshinkan Renmei and the
president of Aikido Yoshinkan Seiseikai as well as being
the only Saikoo Shihan in Yoshinkan Aikido.
Some of Terada Shihan's other travels outside Japan include:
 October 1997: Aikido seminar in Georgetown, Canada.
April 1999: Aikido Seminar in Melbourne, Australia.
February 2000: Aikido seminar in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
March/April 2000: Aikido seminar in London, Canada.
April 2001 2001: Aikido seminar in Windsor, Canada.
June 2001: Aikido seminar in St. Petersburg, Russia
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