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Terada Kiyoyuki Hanshi, 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 Hanshi and the Yoshinkan Seiseikai International Committee for supplying the following information and to Kenji Nakazawa and Leslie Mills for their assistance with the formatting and editing. Enjoy!

 
June, 1937: Terada Hanshi ,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 Hanshi entered Takushoku University, where he joined the school Karate club. In 1941 he enters the Shidojuku University dormitory where he meets Shioda Gozo Soke. During the period between 1940 and 1943, Terada Hanshi had learned Sumo from Akutsugawa Sensei, Judo from Sone Sensei, and Kashimaryu Jujitsu from Osugi Sensei.

December, 1943: Terada Hanshi, 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 Hanshi 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 Hanshi, 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 Hanshi started training at the Aikikai Honbu dojo and took lessons from Ueshiba Morehei O’Sensei and Ueshiba Kisshomaru Doshu.

1952: Terada Hanshi, 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 Hanshi, age 31, co-founded Yoshinkan Aikido with Shioda Gozo Soke.

1957: Terada Hanshi, age 33, meets US Senator Robert Kennedy and Prime Minister Nakasone at the Yoshinkan Honbu dojo.

1961: Terada Hanshi, 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 Hanshi, age 43, makes the first of several trips outside Japan to conduct an Aikido seminar in Honolulu, Hawaii.

1977: Terada Hanshi begins to teach Amos Parker Sensei again after his retirement from the U.S. Navy. Terada Hanshi would train Parker Sensei for another 20 years after his returned to Yokosuka, from Guam.

1990: Terada Hanshi, 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 he serves as Saikoo Komon of Yoshinkan Aikido. (Chief Technical Advisor to Yoshinkan Aikido)

2008: Elevated to Judan (10th degree black black), Yoshinkan Aikido.