Recommended reading: “Our Country as a Martial Nation,” by Onisaburo Deguchi

The article below by Onisaburo Deguchi, Co-Founder of the Omoto religion and spiritual teacher of Morihei Ueshiba, has been selected from the extensive archives of the Online Aikido Journal. We believe that an informed readership with knowledge of the history, techniques and philosophy of aikido is essential to the growth of the art and its adherence to the principles espoused by Aikido Founder Morihei Ueshiba.

Mr. Ueshiba, a man who fortunately has received holy technique from the gods and who is their instrument in the governing of Japan during this period of crisis of our divine nation, is back again at the headquarters and making it the main center of his activities. This is the first step toward the realization of a world as it was planned to be [by the gods] in the holy realms.

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