1. Masaru Shintani was a Japanese-Canadian master of karate who introduced the Wado-ryu style of karate in Canada and founded the Shintani Wado-Kai Karate Federation.
12 Facts About Masaru Shintani
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Masaru Shintani held ranks in Judo, Aikido, and Kendo.
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Masaru Shintani's father died when he was only seven years old.
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Masaru Shintani trained with Kitagawa for 20 years, and when Kitagawa died, Masaru Shintani began searching for another teacher.
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Masaru Shintani once said to Shintani "you come from a fine grain".
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Masaru Shintani would make regular trips to Japan to learn from Ohtsuka, and Ohtsuka visited Masaru Shintani in Canada during several of his international trips.
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Masaru Shintani accepted this honour, and subsequently became the head of all Wado Karate-do in North America and was conferred the title of Supreme Instructor.
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One night, Masaru Shintani had a dream that he was fighting a swordsman, and the only weapon he had was a short stick.
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Masaru Shintani developed Shindo with the idea that the same techniques could be used either empty handed, or with a Shindo, a stick approximately 36-inches in length, essentially a shortened Bo staff.
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Masaru Shintani began teaching Shindo to his students in the early 1980s.
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The next day, with his condition being upgraded to stable, the doctors decided to have Masaru Shintani returned to Hamilton via air-ambulance to be under his physician's care.
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The air-ambulance returned to Kapuskasing Hospital where Masaru Shintani was declared deceased.