A History of Chicago Aikikai
3 videos • 102 views • by Chicago Aikikai A multi-part history of the history of Chicago Aikikai, starting with a group of nisei (second-generation Japanese Americans) informally gathering in a storefront basement in the Lake View neighborhood (Chicago's unofficial Japantown) in 1961, to incorporating as Illinois Aikido Club in 1963, changing its name to Chicago Aikikai in the late 1980s, and through to today.