He emphasized the basics of the Japanese martial art, and he encouraged his students to develop their own interpretations of it. By Clay Risen Yoshimitsu Yamada, who more than anyone else was ...
Yoshimitsu Yamada has been showing students at the New York Aikikai on West 18th Street in Chelsea how to deflect, throw and pin opponents for 50 years. At 76, he can still toss a full-size man onto ...
NEW YORK -- Yoshimitsu Yamada, who more than anyone else was responsible for bringing the defensive martial art known as aikido to the United States, died Jan. 15 in Manhattan. He was 84.
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