- male, deceased (1957)
- Gichin Funakoshi was one of Okinawan karate masters who introduced karate to the Japanese mainland in 1921. His student, Hironori Ohtsuka and his...
- male, deceased (2002)
- Morihiro Saito was an aikido teacher with many students around the world. He began his aikido training under the founder of aikido, Morihei...
- male, deceased (2003)
- Minoru Mochizuki was a Japanese martial artist who founded Yoseikan Budo. He held the ranks 10th dan, aikido (International Martial Arts...
- male, deceased (1938)
- Kano Jigoro was the founder of judo. Judo was the first Japanese martial art to gain widespread international recognition, and the first to become...
- male, deceased (1958)
- Nakayama Hakudo, also known as Nakayama Hiromichi, was a Japanese martial artist and founder of the iaido style Musō Shinden-ryū. He is the only pe...
- male, deceased (1981)
- Shigeru Egami (1912-1981) was a student of the founder of modern karate - Gichin Funakoshi; and later the founder of the style he named shotokai....
- male, 39 years old
- is a Japanese mangaka, best known for his samurai-themed series "Rurouni Kenshin". He once worked as an assistant for his favorite author Takeshi...
- male, 76 years old
- Nobuyoshi Tamura was born on 1933-03-02 in Osaka, Japan. His father was a kendo teacher. Tamura entered the Aikikai Hombu Dojo around 1953 as an...
- male, 81 years old (United States)
- Hidetaka Nishiyama is a Japanese Shotokan karate instructor. Japanese-American karate master, author, administrator and pioneer Born in Tokyo,...
- male
- Dr. Gordon Warner is an authority on the Japanese art of kendo.
| |
