Hiroshi Isoyama

Infobox_martial_artist
name = Isoyama Hiroshi
(磯山博)
birth_date = birth date|1937|1|14
birth_place = Iwama, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan
martial_art = Aikido
teacher = Morihei Ueshiba
rank = 8th dan

nihongo|Hiroshi Isoyama|磯山博|Isoyama Hiroshi is a Japanese teacher of the martial art of aikido. He currently holds the rank of 8th dan shihan in the Aikikai and is that organization's Technical Councillor. [cite encyclopedia
last = Pranin
first = Stanley
encyclopedia = Encyclopedia of Aikido
title = Interview with Hiroshi Isoyama
date = 2007
url = http://www.aikidojournal.com/article.php?articleID=102 ]

Isoyama is the acting head of the Ibaraki Shibu Dojo in Iwama on behalf of Ueshiba Moriteru. Over a long career in the martial arts, he has been Chief of Defensive Tactics for the Japan Self Defence Force Academy, and also instructed the U.S. Army in self defence tactics. He joined the Air Self-Defence Forces in 1958 and was sent to Chitose. His first students were members of the American military police and eventually included members of his own country's forces. Isoyama was trained by the founder of Aikido, Ueshiba Morihei from the age of twelve.

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