Miye Ota inside the Old Town Goleta studio that she and her late husband, Kenji, have used for decades to teach Aikido, ballroom dancing and cultural classes. Kenji Ota died in November at 92, and his ...

For 35 years, husband and wife team Sharon Gilbert and Bill Stockton have brought a defensive form of martial arts free of charge to Kona residents. Aiki Kai O Kona is a program within the Hawaii ...

Emphasising self-defence rather than victory, Japan's youngest martial art brings both new and veteran practitioners from across the globe to Tanabe, the town where it was born. Two men stood opposite ...

What started with just a handful of people trying to learn an ancient art turned into decades of study, and a community of people connected by their love of aikido. In observance of Asian American and ...

One thought dogged me during the weeks after I resumed practicing aikido in the late '80s, at 41, following a nearly seven-year hiatus: I'm too old for this. Falling safely - and frequently - is ...