Kyoichi Inoue

{{Infobox martial artist

| name = Kyoichi Inoue

| native_name = 井上強一 Inoue Kyoichi

| native_name_lang= jp

| image = Kyoichi Inoue Hanshi 9th dan Yoshinkan aikido.jpg

| caption = Kyoichi Inoue

| birth_date = {{birth date|1935|09|10}}

| birth_place = Teshio District, Hokkaido, Japan

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| nationality = Japanese

| martial_art = Aikido

| teacher = Gozo Shioda

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{{Nihongo|Kyoichi Inoue|井上 強一|Inoue Kyōichi|September 10, 1935 – December 23, 2017{{cite web

| url = http://www.aikiweb.com/forums/showpost.php?p=352893&postcount=1

| title = Kyoichi Inoue (10th dan, Yoshinkan) Passes Away

| publisher = Jun Akiyama via Aikiweb

| date = 2017-12-24

| accessdate = 25 December 2017

}}}} was a 10th dan{{cite web

| url= http://www.misogikan.com/en/news/64-congratulations-to-hansi-kyoichi-inoue-10th-dan

| title= CONGRATULATIONS to Hanshi Kyoichi Inoue on awarding the 10th dan grade in Aikido!

| publisher= Aikido Renshinkai Misogikan Dojo

| accessdate = 2 September 2010

}} Yoshinkan aikido master.{{cite web

| url= http://www.misogikan.com/en/what-is-aikido/personalities/71-hanshi-inoue-kyoichi

| title= Hanshi INOUE KYOICHI

| publisher= Aikido Renshinkai Misogikan Dojo

| accessdate =2 September 2010

}} He was an uchideshi under Yoshinkan founder Gozo Shioda, in what became the Yoshinkan senshusei course. During his early years as an uchi-deshi, he was instrumental in developing the Yoshinkan's current pedagogical system along with Takashi Kushida in consultation with Gozo Shioda.{{Cite web|url=http://www.misogikan.com/en/what-is-aikido/personalities/78-interview-with-hanshi-kyoichi-inoue|title = 404 - 找不到文件或目录。}}

From 1970 to 1996, he was employed as a martial arts instructor for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police after a decade of teaching the riot police.{{cite web |url=http://www.aikidojournal.com/article?articleID=100 |title=Interview with Kyoichi Inoue (2) |accessdate=2012-04-08 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110909033930/http://www.aikidojournal.com/article?articleID=100 |archivedate=2011-09-09 }} He received his 9th dan from Shioda Gozo in 1992. Shioda died in 1994 and Inoue was named the new director (kanchō 館長) of the Yoshinkan in 2002.{{cite web

| url= http://www.shindokanbooks.com/yoshinkan.shtml

| title= Aikido Yoshinkan Instructor Requirements by Kyoichi Inoue

| publisher= Shindokan Books

| date= 2006

| accessdate =2 September 2010

}} His 10th dan certificate was issued by the International Budo Federation in April 2009, as he had resigned from the Yoshinkan effective 30 March 2006 following an internal dispute. He was kanchō of Aikido Shinwakan (合氣道親和館),{{cite web

| url= http://www.shinwakan.jp/

| title= 合氣道親和館井上強一館長

| publisher= Aikido Shinwakan

| date= 2010-03-31

| accessdate= 2 September 2010

| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120311185939/http://www.shinwakan.jp/

| archive-date= 11 March 2012

| url-status= dead

}} which he established in 2010.{{cite web

| url= http://www.shinwakan.jp/link.html

| title= rekishi of 合気道親和館＿館長井上強一

| publisher= Aikido Shinwakan

| date= 2010-03-31

| accessdate =2 September 2010

}} Aikido Shinwakan disbanded on 2014-04-30.{{cite web

| url= http://www.shinwakan.jp/

| title= 合氣道親和館井上強一館長

| publisher= Aikido Shinwakan

| date= 2014-06-11

| accessdate= 11 June 2014

| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120311185939/http://www.shinwakan.jp/

| archive-date= 11 March 2012

| url-status= dead

}}