Homma Gaku (本間 学 Honma Gaku), born May 12, 1950, is an aikido teacher and direct student of the founder Morihei Ueshiba. He is an author; the books Children and the Martial Arts and Aikido for Life are his most prominent publications. Homma, whose father was a Shinto priest and an officer in the Japanese Imperial Army during the war, was bor...