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Top Karateka to conduct Grading Examinations
Teruyuki Okazaki
Master Teruyuki Okazaki 10th Dan Chairman and Chief Instructor of The International Shotokan Karate Federation (I.SK.F) will be arriving in Guyana on Thursday November 26th 2009, to conduct Grading Examinations for the I.S.K.F Guyana at The Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on Friday November 27th at 14:00 hrs. The examinations will be for students from Berbice, Lusignan and Georgetown. Master Okazaki will leave Guyana on Saturday to conduct Grading Exams in Barbados after which he returns to the USA.
Master Teruyuki Okazaki was born in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, in 1931 and began karate at the age of 16, studying under Gichin Funakoshi, the founder of Shotokan, and Masatoshi Nakayama, former chief instructor of the Japan Karate Association. After receiving his B.A. from Takushoku University in Tokyo in 1953, he taught karate at his alma mater, at Tokyo Toritsu University and at Japan’s self-defense academy. In 1957 he began training instructors of the Japan Karate Association. He is the co-author of The Textbook of Modern Karate.
Mr. Okazaki arrived in the United States in May 1961 where he established the Philadelphia Karate Club and taught at Temple University. In September 1962 he formed the East Coast Karate Association, a branch of the American Amateur Karate Federation.
Today he oversees the 50,000-member International Shotokan Karate Federation which was founded in 1977 as an affiliate of the Japan Karate Association.
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