Still studying at university, he was eligible for the Universiade that year and managed to finish in third place behind Peter Daenens and Farley Gerber.

At the 1985 Asian Athletics Championships he became the third Japanese man to lift the steeplechase title, finishing half a second ahead of Taiwan's defending champion Hwang Wen-Cheng to match the feat of Takaharu Koyama and Masanari Shintaku.

At the event in Canberra, he finished well down the field, coming last in eighth place with a time of 8:55.35 minutes (well short of his best).

In a close sprint finish, Aikyo was overhauled by Valeriy Vandyak in the final metres and ultimately ended up with the bronze medal behind the Soviet runner and Cuba's Juan Ramón Conde, repeating his finish of four years earlier.

[10] His last major appearance was a fourth-place finish at the 1991 Asian Athletics Championships, beaten to a medal by Syria's Saleh Mohammed Habib.

[13][14] His daughter Sena and Maya was the 2005 Japanese national junior high school champion in the 4 × 100 metres relay.