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Bambi
2nd January 2001, 13:20
Just an interesting titbit i picked up on Obuchi Keizo,ex(?) japanese prime minister. Apparantly he studied Aikido during his student day's at Waseda university. Tomiki style judging by the photo of him performing shomen ate. Wonder if he studied under Tomiki S?

It's a shame that he did'nt challenge Putin to some randori during the Okinawa summit :)

yipark
2nd January 2001, 22:29
>Just an interesting titbit i picked up on Obuchi Keizo,
>ex(?) japanese prime minister. Apparantly he studied
>Aikido during his student day's at Waseda university.
>Tomiki style judging by the photo of him performing shomen
>ate. Wonder if he studied under Tomiki S?
>
>It's a shame that he did'nt challenge Putin to some
>randori during the Okinawa summit :)

It would have been impressive if he challenged Putin, especially since Obuchi suffered a stroke and died on May 14, 2000. The G8 Summit in Okinawa was held on July 21-23, 2000.

the pizza got colder,
Young-In Park