Kenjiro Yoshigasaki

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Kenjiro Yoshigasaki (b. 1951) is an aikido instructor ranked 8th dan Shin Shin Toitsu Aikido.

Born in Kagoshima, Japan he was a former student of Koichi Tohei. He was a member of Ki no Kenkyukai and was dispatched to Europe in 1977 to introduce Ki-Aikido and set up an organisation to connect the new dojos to the Ki no Kenkyukai.

In 2003 Yoshigasaki broke away from Tohei and founded his own organisation, the "Ki no Kenkyukai Association Internationale". The new organisation is independent of the original Ki no Kenkyukai but still teaches the principles of Ki and is still a Ki-aikido style.