- 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 (1987)
- Nakayama Masatoshi was a high-ranking master of Shotokan karate-dō the first who achieved the rank of 10th dan. Nakayama was born in the Yamaguchi p...
- 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
- Sensei Dave Hazard 7th Dan, born in east London, is a well known British practitioner and instructor of Shotokan Karate and was one of the few...
- male, 49 years old
- Frank Brennan (7th dan, shotokan karate) is one of the biggest names in British karate of the 1970s and '80s, winning a wide variety of titles both...
- male, 78 years old (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States)
- Teruyuki Okazaki (b June 22, 1931), a ninth degree black belt in Shotokan Karate, is the founder, chairman and chief instructor of the...
- male
- Tetsuhiko Asai (7 June 1935 - 15 August 2006) was a leading karateka (9th Dan) and head of the International Japan Karate Association and the Japan...
- male, 78 years old
- Kanazawa Hirokazu is a world renowned shotokan karate instructor. He is currently the Chief instructor and President of Shotokan Karate-do...
- male, 66 years old
- Andy Sherry (born 9 July 1943) is one of the most senior practitioners of karate in Great Britain and the chief instructor of the KUGB.
- male, 61 years old
- Terry O'Neill was born in Liverpool on 27 February 1948, the son of a police officer. From an early age he had always been fascinated by stories of...
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