Japan Karate Association
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The Japan Karate Association (or JKA; known in Japanese as Nihon Karate Kyokai, or sometimes just "kyokai" among karateka in Japan) is one of the primary shotokan karate organizations.
Okinawan professor Gichin Funakoshi introduced karate to Japan in 1922. His pen name for his poetry was Shoto, hence his approach to karate became known as Shotokan. With his work, karate became part of the Japanese school system, adjusted to reduce injury and merge with modern approaches of athletic training.
In the late 1940s, towards the end of his life, Funakoshi and his senior students formed a special institute, dedicated to research, promotion, events management, and education. This was the Japan Karate Association. Under Chief Instructor Masatoshi Nakayama, a generation of respected instructors spread karate worldwide, guided from the JKA headquarters in Tokyo.
Following Nakayama's death in 1987, the JKA began to splinter, both at the Tokyo headquarters and worldwide. However, it is still the largest and among the most influential of modern karate organizations.
[edit] JKA Instructor Training Graduates
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| Instructor | Year of Graduation | Rank | Position |
| Takayuki Mikami | 1957 | 8th Dan | USA ISKF Southern |
| Takaura Eiji | 1957 | ' | ' |
| Tsushima Toshio | 1958 | ' | ' |
| Yaguchi Yutaka | 1958 | 8th Dan | USA ISKF Mountain States |
| Ouchi Kyo | 1959 | ' | ' |
| Sato Masaki | 1959 | ' | ' |
| *Saito Shigeru | 1959 | ' | ' |
| Inaba Mitsue | 1960 | ' | ' |
| Kano Masahiko | 1960 | ' | ' |
| Watanabe Gunji | 1960 | ' | ' |
| *Ogata Kyoji | 1960 | ' | ' |
| Kisaka Katsuharu | 1961 | ' | USA |
| Nakaya Ken | 1961 | ' | ' |
| Ogawa Eiko | 1961 | ' | ' |
| Ueki Masaaki | 1961 | 8th Dan | HQ Full-Time Instructor |
| *Enoeda Keinosuke | 1961 | 9th Dan | Deceased 29th March 2003. |
| *Miyazaki Satoshi | 1961 | ' | ' |
| *Mori Osamu | 1961 | ' | ' |
| *Takahashi Yoshimasa | 1961 | ' | ' |
| *Majima Kenshiro | 1962 | ' | ' |
| Sakai Ryusuke | 1962 | 7th Dan | JKA Brasil. |
| Jitsuhara Shoji | 1963 | ' | ' |
| Ochi Hideo | 1963 | 8th Dan | JKA Germany. |
| Takahashi Yasuoki | 1963 | ' | ' |
| *Itaya Michihisa | 1963 | ' | ' |
| Oishi Takeshi | 1965 | ' | ' |
| *Tabata Yukichi | 1965 | ' | ' |
| Takashina Shigeru | 1966 | 8th Dan | USA ISKF South Atlantic |
| Higashi Kunio | 1967 | ' | ' |
| Iida Norihiko | 1967 | ' | ' |
| Okamoto Hideki | 1967 | ' | Egypt |
| Takahashi Shunsuke | 1967 | 8th Dan | JKA Australia. |
| Yano Kenji | 1967 | ' | ' |
| Baba Isamu | 1970 | ' | ' |
| Horie Teruo | 1971 | ' | ' |
| Nishino Shuhei | 1971 | ' | ' |
| *Hayakawa Norimasa | 1971 | ' | ' |
| Kanegae Kenji | 1972 | ' | ' |
| Osaka Yoshiharu | 1972 | 8th Dan | HQ Full-Time Instructor |
| Sasaki Yoshitaka | 1972 | 6th Dan | JKA India. |
| Sato Teruo | 1974 | ' | ' |
| Mori Toshihiro | 1975 | ' | ' |
| Imura Takenori | 1977 | 7th Dan | HQ Full-Time Instructor |
| Kurasako Kenro | 1977 | 7th Dan | HQ Full-Time Instructor |
| Kawawada Minoru | 1978 | 7th Dan | HQ Full-Time Instructor |
| Komaki Masaki | 1978 | ' | ' |
| Omura Fujikiyo | 1978 | 7th Dan | JKA Thailand. |
| Fukami Akira | 1979 | ' | ' |
| Kaneko Taneaki | 1979 | ' | ' |
| Sakata Masashi | 1979 | ' | ' |
| Abe Miwako | 1980 | ' | ' |
| Tsuchii Takayuki | 1980 | ' | ' |
| Yamamoto Hideo | 1980 | ' | ' |
| Ogura Yasunori | 1982 | 7th Dan | HQ Full-Time Instructor |
| Imamura Tomio | 1983 | 6th Dan | HQ Full-Time Instructor |
| Kashiwagi Nobuyuki | 1984 | ' | ' |
| Koike Tsuyoshi | 1984 | ' | ' |
| Yokomichi Masaaki | 1984 | ' | ' |
| Izumiya Seizo | 1986 | 6th Dan | HQ Full-Time Instructor |
| Shiina Katsutoshi | 1986 | 6th Dan | HQ Full-Time Instructor |
| Hanzaki Yasuo | 1987 | 6th Dan | HQ Full-Time Instructor |
| Nakamura Yoko | 1987 | ' | ' |
| Naka Tatsuya | 1989 | 6th Dan | HQ Full-Time Instructor |
| Noda Kenichi | 1990 | ' | ' |
| Taniyama Takuya | 1990 | 6th Dan | HQ Full-Time Instructor |
| *Imai Hiromitsu | 1991 | ' | ' |
| Takahashi Satoshi | 1992 | 5th Dan | HQ Full-Time Instructor |
| Kobayashi Kunio | 1993 | 5th Dan | HQ Full-Time Instructor |
| Ogata Koji | 1994 | 5th Dan | HQ Full-Time Instructor |
| Richard Amos | 1994 | 6th Dan | WTKO. |
| Walter Crockford | 1996 | 5th Dan | JKA Canada. |
| Ikenaga Atsushi | 1996 | ' | ' |
| Hirayama Yuko | 1998 | 4th Dan | HQ Secretariat |
| Okuma Koichiro | 1998 | 4th Dan | HQ Full-Time Instructor |
| Iwasawa Mayumi | 1998 | 3th Dan | HQ Secretariat |
| Aragaki Misako | 2003 | 3th Dan | HQ Secretariat |
| Ubukata Koji | 2003 | ' | ' |
| Yamada Satomi | 2004 | ' | ' |
