The Source of Shotokan Karate

PLEASE NOTE: The picture of Enoeda Sensei @ 4:00 is from the book "Keinosuke Enoeda - Tiger of Shotokan Karate" by Mr. Rod Butler, who has kindly granted permission for this photograph to be used in this video. This book can be purchased at: www.karate-london.co.uk Visit www.legendtv.co.uk for excellent dvds on shotokan karate-do Thank You Japan Karate Association The JKA was founded in May, 1949. By 1955, the first headquarters dojo had been built at Yotsuya in Tokyo, and the first JKA Chairman had been appointed Saigo Kichinosuke, member of the upper house of the Japanese Diet and grandson of Saigo Takamori, one of the greatest heroes of Meiji Japan. In 1956, the JKA set up the first-ever karate specialist instructor intern (kenshusei) training program at the headquarters dojo, and accepted its first round of trainees. This was the start of the finest karate instructor training program ever created, a program never matched or even approached by any other karate organisation. It is through this program that the JKA has built up its unique cadre of distinguished karate instructors, all full-time salaried professionals, whose numbers are consistently maintained at roughly twenty individuals. On April 10, 1957, the JKA became a legal entity when Japans Ministry of Education (now Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture) officially recognized the JKA as an association of members for the promotion of karate and the spread and enrichment of actual karate practice ...



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