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Yohsuke Aikawa is voice artist as well as Katana dancer Kenbu and Kendo teacher.
Aikawa was born and raised on the island of Kyushu, Japan. His family was originally Samurai in Nagasaki.
When he was child he begun to study Kendo and calligraphy.
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 Takeshi Gouda of the Bologna Conservatory and Miyako Ichu the opera singer.
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」.
AIn addition to talks and lectures, Aikawa has personally trained over 4,000 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, and “Rakugo” which is a form of Japanese traditional storytelling, conveyed through comic monologues using minimal props.
At 2013 he moved to Naples in Italy. In order to improve his voice skill and seek effective voice training, he studied Belcanto method by two operatic teachers in Italy.
From 2015, he has involved in Festival DellOriente, which is an one of the hugest cultural event tour in Italy. He has sung a Japanese songs, played sword dance Kenbu on that stages. He rounded with them from Sicily, Naples, Bari, Roma, Firenze, Carrara, Bologna, Padova, Milano, Torino and various city. Totally he played 500 stages.
With great achievement in Italy, he has traveled and performed his art at Singapore, Thailandia, Malaysia, United States, United Kingdom, France, Korea, Australia, Argentine, Chile, Brasil.
Especially in Iran, he did 2 stages at the city of Shiraz, then his Iranian song was played 3,000,000 times on Instagram.
At Brasil, he performed on Bande Sport that is the third largest TV broadcasting company in this country.
At march in 2019, he started Aikawa Ryu Dojo in Naples, to teach Kendo and Kenbu.