Takashi Araya

Biography Takashi Araya attended Ōdate Homei High School in Akita Prefecture and graduated from Tokyo University of Science. The Araya family served the Northern Fujiwara noble family through a gold mining business.

In 2007 (Heisei 19), he retired from the Special Operations Group. Afterward, he worked as the Chief Research and Development Officer of the GRD (JGSDF Ground Research and Development Command). Director of 3rd Laboratory, 2nd Research Division, General Research Department, etc. In August 2008 he retired with the rank of Colonel.

After retiring, he became the director of the Meiji Jingu Shiseikan in October 2009, and worked to enhance the youth nature school and martial arts courses to learn Japanese spiritual culture. He also focused on holding martial arts courses outside Japan, and helped establish the European-based International Shiseikan Martial Arts Association, the Russian Shiseikan Martial Arts Club, and the Moscow State University Martial Arts Club. He resigned in October 2018.

In November 2018, the "International Symbiotic Creation Association, Kumano Asuka Musubi No Sato" was established in Asuka-cho, Kumano city, Mie Prefecture, and started activities in the UNESCO Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range. The activities are aimed at creating a better world by reawaking the resilience and power of the human psyche, through self-sustaining daily activities and experiences with friends. also, he made many claims about the Russo-Ukrainian War, especially to justify the Russia's Invasion of Ukraine - such as "a current situation about Ukraine is a conspiracy orchestrated by United States and UK to make Russian forces reluctantly joined the war, just like what they did to Japan (今般のウクライナ情勢は、かつて日本がはめられたのと同じやり方でロシアを戦争に引きずり込もうという英米の策略だ。)" He's also accused of far right-wing views of wanting to turn the JSDF into an actual military. The JSDF Intelligence Security Command kept him under surveillance for years because of his Ultranationalistic behavior and his unsanctioned private military combat training, but he was never charged.