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Osaka Sensei is a senior instructor and Managing Director of at the JKA Honbu. As well as previously holding the title of JKA national kumite champion, he has won the All Japan and World Kata Championships a record nine consecutive times. It is no surprise that Nakayama described him as

: "... a karateka whose basic techniques are penetrating and whose kata are of the first rank."

He is currently also the coach to the renowned Takushoku University karate club, which was recently officially reopened, after being shut by the Ministry of Education for several years, owing to a death of one of the students.

Sensei Osaka is known to many, as having the finest shotokan karate technique!

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The awesome Kagawa Sensei, senior instructor with the JKS.

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Kancho Hirokazu Kanazawa (b. 1931)world chief instructor of the Shotokan Karate International Federation, trained under Sensei Nakayama and became one of the J.K.A.`s most gifted students. He was one of the first three JKA Instructors to qualify from the famous JKA Instructors Training Course in 1956 (with Mikami and Takura), and won the first JKA Kumite Championship in 1957 (with a broken hand) and the Kata in 1958 (sharing the Kumite honours with Mikami). Sensei Kanazawa was invited to teach Karate in England in 1965. In 1974, along with Sensei Asano, Sensei Kanazawa started Shotokan Karate International (S.K.I.). He became and still is one of Karate's greatest living ambassadors, his unique talents mean he is in constant demand all over the world.

Sensei Kanazawa is both Chairman and World Chief Instructor of the worlds largest Shotokan Karate organisation, the Shotokan Karate-do International Federation and is one of the few remaining karateka privileged to have studied under Master Gichin Funakoshi.

In April 2000, while attending the 7th S.K.I.F. World Championships in Bali, Shihan Kanazawa was promoted to the grade of 10th Dan. He is currently the only living Shotokan Master to hold such a high grade.

Sensei Enoeda passed away on March 29th 2003. He has left a huge hole in the British Karate community which will be impossible to fill. A memorial service was held in his honour at Crystal Palace on June 1st 2003, photos of which are on the Gallery page. It was announced at the Memorial Service for Sensei Enoeda that he had been posthumously awarded 9th Dan by the Japan Karate Association.

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