There are two major teachers who branched off from the Kodokai to establish their own traditions. The first was Seigō Okamoto (岡本 正剛 "Okamoto Seigō", 1925-2015) who founded the . His interpretation of "aiki" and minimal movement throws. The organization has a great following abroad, especially in the United States and Europe. Another group was that of Katsumi Yonezawa (米沢 克巳 "Yonezawa Katsumi", 1937–1998), who founded his own organization, called the . In the early 1970s, while Yonezawa was still a senior teacher at the Kodokai, he was the first person to bring Daitō-ryū Aiki-jūjutsu to the United States and Canada. The Bokuyōkan is currently run by his son Hiromitsu Yonezawa ("Yonezawa Hiromitsu"), headquartered in Hokkaidō, with a following at the Yonezawa "dojo" and several branches in the United States, as well as a "dojo" in Germany.