YOSUKE
AIKAWA
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sword dancer & singer
YOSUKE
AIKAWA
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Yousuke Aikawa is voice artist as well as sword artist Aikawa was born and raised on the island of Kyushu, Japan. While still in high school, he decided to become the general secretary of the United Nations and in order to pursue that dream, upon graduation, went to Tokyo where he attended Waseda University as a student in the law department where he majored in international relations. While he was a student at Waseda, he went as a student volunteer to the PATRIR Peace Institute in Romania where he researched “Peace Studies” and met Dr. Johane Galtung who took him under his wing. In addition to attending the peace institute, Aikawa became active as a volunteer worker in UNFPA, an organization of the UN. On July 17th in 2006, Aikawa began his career as a voice trainer and studied under the world renown, and number one ranked voice teacher, Edwin Coppard of Canada. To further better himself, Aikawa enrolled in the actor’s school of Nippon TV where he received training and guidance from the former top announcer of NHK Mr. Hiroshi Sakai. He has also studied with Marilena Laurenza ConservatorySalerno Italy and Miyako Ichu traditional Japanese art Joruri.
To be able to further reach people, and produce voice seminars and concerts, in 2009 Aikawa founded the company SORAOTO with the mission statement of 「天から与えられた声を通じ、感動・勇気・癒しを伝える」. As of February of 2023, Aikawa has given over 2000 talks and lectures to over 100,000 people. In addition to talks and lectures, Aikawa has personally trained over 5,000 business people in voice skills and speech delivery. The aforementioned are only a few of Aikawa’s repertoire, which also includes proper public reading techniques, classical crossover singing. In 2013, he moved to Naples in Italy. After 2015 September, he regularly sings and dances with sword at Festivaldelloriente is the largest Asian culture event in Europe. In 2019, he founded “ Aikawa Ryu Dojo” to teach his sword tecnich and philosophy as well as kendo training. In 2022, he founded “ the Yamato Japan “ is a team for traditional Japanese performers.
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【SWORD ART】
His sword perfomance is based on below: Kendo 3 dan Iaido Reiho Two Swords Kenjutsu Otachi jutsu Japanese Traditional Dance Nihonbuyo etc His career as samurai begun when he was a child. He was own sword school in south italy.
Aikawa Ryu Dojo https://aikawaryudojo.jimdofree.com/
【VOICE ART】
He sings :
Napolitan folklore songs Anime songs Storytelling Buddihst Ancient Chant Shomyo etc
He learned how to use voice since 2006. Recentry he plays in Italy various cities.