Lia Suzuki Sensei: Chief InstructorPlease help us raise awareness by clicking one of these buttons…Please help us raise awareness by clicking one of these buttons… Lia Suzuki Sensei began Aikido in 1982. From 1987, for nine years, she trained in Kamakura, Japan with her present teacher and top student of the late grand master Seigo Yamaguchi Shihan, Takeda Yoshinobu Shihan, 8th dan.