12 Facts About Minoru Mochizuki

Minoru Mochizuki was a Japanese martial artist who founded the dojo Yoseikan.

Minoru Mochizuki was a 10th dan in Aikido, 9th dan in Jujutsu, 8th dan in Iaido, 8th dan in Judo, 8th dan in Kobudo, 5th dan in Kendo, 5th dan in Karate, and a 5th dan in Jojutsu.

Minoru Mochizuki oversaw the development of the system from his home in Shizuoka, Japan, where his dojo, the Yoseikan, was often visited by martial arts practitioners from all over the world.

Minoru Mochizuki, began by training in kendo at the age of five, at his grandfather's dojo in Shizuoka.

In 1925, Minoru Mochizuki began judo and joined the Kodokan where he became an outstanding competitor.

Minoru Mochizuki was the uchideshi of Morihei Ueshiba at the Kobukan dojo for one year before opening his own dojo in Shizuoka City in 1931.

Minoru Mochizuki was awarded two Daito-Ryu scrolls by Ueshiba in June 1932.

Minoru Mochizuki spent eight years in Mongolia where he was an active educator and entrepreneur of projects to improve communications and irrigation.

Minoru Mochizuki was the first to teach aikido in the West when he traveled in France from 1951 to 1953 as a judo teacher.

Minoru Mochizuki was the 3rd Aikido Division head of the Kokusai Budoin-International Martial Arts Federation after Ueshiba and Tomiki.

Minoru Mochizuki taught at the dojo of Shizuoka until nearly the end of the last millennium and spent the last years of his life in France with his son Hiroo.

On May 30,2003, Minoru Mochizuki died in Aix-en-Provence, France, at the age of 96.