Michael G. Foster
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Michael G. Foster is the founder and head of the Yoshukai International organization, an offshoot of Yoshukai karate. In the late 1950s Foster was stationed at Ituzuke Air Force Base near Fukuoka, Japan, where he studied karate with Watanabe a Goju Ryu karate instructor who taught at the Itazuke Administration Annex base gym. Watanabe felt that Foster was a very promising student and recommended that he study with Mamoru Yamamoto who founded Yoshukai Karate, derived from Tsuyoshi Chitose's Chito-ryu. Foster lived and studied in Yamamoto 's dojo for approximately nineteen months, returning to USA in 1966 as a 4th dan (4th degree black belt). He returned to Japan on other occasions to study for a total of ten years under Yamamoto. [1]
In 1977 Foster split from Yamamoto's organization and established the Yoshukai International Karate Association. At the same time Hiroyuki Koda established the U.S. Yoshukai Karate Association (USYKA). In 1989, Foster was awarded the right to use the name "Yoshukai International Karate Association" after a court action. [2]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Development of World Yoshukai
- ^ (Mike Foster, et al. v. United States Yoshukai Karate Association, CA no. 89-D-741-N)
[edit] External links
- Yoshukai International Karate Association
- Organizations and Instructors with direct ties to Chito-ryu Karate-do [1]
