# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nobuyoshi-tamura
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:50:44.422Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nobuyoshi-tamura"
name: "Nobuyoshi Tamura"
slug: "nobuyoshi-tamura"
description: "Nobuyoshi Tamura  was a prominent aikidoka and a direct student of Morihei Ueshiba. The son of a kendo teacher, Tamura entered the Aikikai Hombu Dojo in 1953 as an uchi-deshi of aikido founder Morihei Ueshiba. He was one of Ueshiba's favorite pupils and since 1964 has greatly contributed to the development of aikido in Europe and France in particular. He was the National Technical Director (DTN) of the FFAB. He held the rank of 8th dan and the title of Shihan. Throughout his teaching career he trained many others instructors in various countries around the world but foremost Western Europe. In 1999, he received the medal of \"Chevalier de l'ordre National du Mérite\" from the French government. Tamura published several books on aikido in French. His dojo, Shumeikan Dojo, is located in the village of Bras, France.\nHis former students include Jorge Rojo Gutierrez, Toshiro Suga, Pierre Chassang and Alain Peyrache."
tagline: "Japanese aikidoka"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tamura_a4dn894_9251.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1933-03-02"
deathDate: "2010-07-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.1863354037267081
  historical:           10.09028266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "نوبويوشي تامورا"
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    title: "Nobuyoshi Tamura"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobuyoshi_Tamura"
    title: "Nobuyoshi Tamura"
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  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamura_Nobuyoshi"
    title: "Tamura Nobuyoshi"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobuyoshi_Tamura"
    title: "Nobuyoshi Tamura"
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  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobuyoshi_Tamura"
    title: "Nobuyoshi Tamura"
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    title: "Nobuyoshi Tamura"
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  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobuyoshi_Tamura"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump