Tadashi Abe
Japanese aikido teacher (1926-1984)
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::summary Japanese aikido teacher (1926-1984) ::
Tadashi Abe (1926 – November 23, 1984) | title = The Aiki News Encyclopedia of Aikido | date = 1991 | author-last = Pranin | author-first = Stanley A. | author-link = Stanley Pranin | publisher = Aiki News | location = Tokyo, Japan | pages = 3 | isbn = 4-900586-12-9 |url = http://www.aikidojournal.com/encyclopedia?entryID=4 |title = ABE, TADASHI |publisher = aikidojournal.com |accessdate = 8 September 2010 |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20090213152433/http://www.aikidojournal.com/encyclopedia?entryID=4 |archivedate = 13 February 2009
Aikido had been introduced into France a year earlier by Minoru Mochizuki during a visit, but it was Tadashi Abe's teaching at the judo dojo of Mikonosuke Kawaishi where aikido was first taught on a regular basis in the West.
In his beginning years in aikido, Abe had been very keen on ascertaining the martial effectiveness of the art.{{Cite web |url = http://www.aikidojournal.com/article.php?articleID=369 |title = Reminiscences Of Minoru Mochizuki |last = Pranin |first = Stanley |publisher = aikidojournal |date = September 1986 |accessdate = 8 September 2010 |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20100314204500/http://www.aikidojournal.com/article.php?articleID=369 |archivedate = 14 March 2010 | title = The Aiki News Encyclopedia of Aikido | date = 1991 | author-last = Pranin | author-first = Stanley A. | author-link = Stanley Pranin | publisher = Aiki News | location = Tokyo, Japan | pages = 140 | isbn = 4-900586-12-9
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