18 Facts About Yoshukai Karate

Body of fighting and self-defense techniques which became Japanese Yoshukai Karate-do is thought to have originated about a thousand years ago in India and spread from there to China, Okinawa and finally to Japan in the early 1900s.

Yoshukai Karate first studied judo, but began training in the Chito-ryu style of karate under Chitose at the age of fifteen.

Yoshukai Karate then returned to Japan in September 1964 to live and train in Yamamoto's dojo for approximately nineteen months.

Yoshukai Karate returned to Japan on other occasions to study for a total of ten years under Yamamoto, during which time Yamamoto separated from the Chito-ryu Federation.

Foster opened his first dojo in the U S in the mid-sixties at Tampa, Florida, and shortly afterward established the first of several Yoshukai Karate schools associated with colleges and universities at St Leo College, Florida.

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Yoshukai Karate met Yamamoto and later became third in rank and command of Katsuoh Yamammoto's U S Yoshukai organization .

Yoshukai Karate is the founder of Shingo-ha Yoshukai which focuses on stances, distances, angular movements, striking arts, joint taking, and throwing.

Yoshukai Karate uses mainly forward, side and natural stances and technique that emphasizes lack of regression in movement.

The Yoshukai Karate organization grew quickly as students reached black belt status and began opening schools throughout Alabama and surrounding states.

World Yoshukai is the only U S organization directly administered by Yoshukai Japan.

Also in 1996 Sensei Robertson of Toronto, Ontario joined Yoshukai Karate International bringing with him several dojos in Ontario and Quebec.

Yoshukan Yoshukai Karate Association was formed in 2004 in Mississauga, ON, Canada.

Yoshukai Karate now maintains his hombu dojo in Dortmund, and directs other schools in Hildesheim, Berlin, and in Hagen, Germany.

German Yoshukai Karate schools fall under the leadership of Yoshukan Dortmund.

In 1991 full directorship of the Puerto Rico Yoshukai Karate organization was assumed by Miguel Alejandro, with schools in Cupey, Carolina, Cidra, and two in Trujillo Alto.

Yoshukai Karate returned to New Zealand and in 1979 set up a dojo at the University of Canterbury.

The dispersed nature of New Zealander karateka means that New Zealand Yoshukai practitioners maintain their training in Malaysia, Canada, France and England.

Yoshukai Karate was founded by Katsuoh Yamamoto in 1963 after he separated from Dr Chitose Tsuyoshi, the founder of Chito-ryu.