Organization of the JKA
The Japan Karate Association is the only independent karate entity legally and officially recognized by the Japanese government as an association of members (Shadan Hojin) for the promotion of karate. There is only one other authorized entity which falls under the umbrella of the JKA: the JKA World Federation (JKA/WF). No other organization shares this status. Likewise, the JKA is not dependent upon or subordinate to any other group, organization or entity. However, there are instances in which the JKA cooperates of its own volition with other organizations in an equal stance.
For the most part, the JKA is centrally organized and coordinated through Tokyo JKA HQ, although there are both National and Regional headquarters in most areas around the world.
The basic structure of the JKA’s executive committee is shown below.
JKA Organization
| Senior Advisor | Nakasone Yasuhiro (Former Prime Minister of Japan) | ||
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| Chairman | Nakahara Nobuyuki | ||
| Vice-Chairman | Iwamatsu Yoshihiko | ||
| Chief Instructor | Ueki Masaaki | ||
| Vice Chief Instructor | Osaka Yoshiharu | ||
| Executive Director | Mori Toshihiro | ||
| Standing Director | Oishi Takeshi | Ogura Yasunori | Imamura Tomio |
| Board of Directors | Ueki Masaaki | Tanaka Masahiko | Osaka Yoshiharu |
| Imura Takenori | Yokouchi Takehisa | Nakayama Hiroshige | |
| Mera Junichi | Noda Yasuhiko | Kishine Choji | |
| Nishino Shuhei | Yano Kenji | Matsuura Shuji | |
| Nemoto Isao | |||
| Auditors | Miyake Hiroshi | Azuma Teruo | |
| Advisor | Kusahara Katsuhide | ||
| Counsellors | Hyogo Minoru | Sato Yuji | Otsu Naonosuke |
| Mizobe Tetsuo | Iizuka Tsutomu | Hoshino Muneyasu | |
| Company Friends | Matsui Nobukatsu | Kon Matsuo | |
| * Standing Committee | Ueki Masaaki | Tanaka Masahiko | Osaka Yoshiharu |
| Imura Takenori | Kurasako Kenro | Kawawada Minoru | |
| * General Manager of Technical Division |
Osaka Yoshiharu | ||
| Vice General Manager of Technical Division |
Imura Takenori | Kurasako Kenro | Kawawada Minoru |
| Secretariat | Izumiya Seizo | ||
| General Manager of Gen. Accounting Division |
Hirayama Yuko | Okuie Satomi | |
| General Manager of Foreign Affairs Division |
Ogura Yasunori | Okuma Koichiro | |
| General Manager of Planning Division |
Ogata Koji | Chubachi Koji | |
| General Manager of System Administration Division |
Ogata Koji | Chubachi Koji | |
| General Manager of PR Division |
Naka Tatsuya | Nemoto Keisuke | |
| General Manager of Gen. Affairs Division |
Hanzaki Yasuo | Inokoshi Yusuke | |
| General Manager of Qualifications Division |
Kobayashi Kunio | Shimizu Ryosuke | Kurihara Kazuaki |
| General Manager of Guidance Division |
Ueda Daisuke | Shiina Mai | Iimura Rikiya |
| Trainees | Taniyama Takuya | Kumeta Riki | |
Shihankai
| Chief Instructor | Ueki Masaaki | ||
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| Vice Chief Instructor | Tanaka Masahiko | Osaka Yoshiharu | |
| Technical Advisor | Mori Masataka | Mikami Takayuki | |
| Shihankai kanji | Ueki Masaaki | Tanaka Masahiko | Osaka Yoshiharu |
| Imura Takenori | Kurasako Kenro | Kawawada Minoru | |
| Instructors Committee | Kumagaya Shozo | Takahashi Yasuoki | Mori Toshihiro |
| Sasaki Shoichi | Katano Yutaka | Matsubara Hideo | |
| Hata Yoshihide | Nozaki Tsutomu | Kano Masahiko | |
| Ichihashi Takuzo | Nakayama Hiroshige | Otsu Naonosuke | |
| Kawasumi Haruo | Nagamori Shigeru | Kawakami Koki | |
| Mera Junichi | Iwata Yoshiaki | Yazawa Toshihiko | |
| Mashita Haruhiko | Takahashi Kazuo | Nakayama Hiroaki | |
| Sasaki Masaki | Nemoto Isao | Sawada Tadao | |
| Koide Masao | Shirai Kyoji | Shinomiya Yuji | |
| Komiya Koji | Shoji Kaiei | Tanigawa Yukio | |
| Koda Iwao | Sasamoto Juro | Seto Kensuke | |
| Okajima Toshio | Kato Buko | Matsui Hideto | |
| Kawasaki Isao | Tanaka Shizuo | Kochi Norisato | |
| Watanabe Kuniyoshi | Sakurai Yasuo | Noda Yasuhiko | |
| Hyogo Minoru | Watanabe Yasuyuki | Tsuyama Katsuhiro | |
| Sakanashi Manabu | Nakatsuka Kiyoshi | Fukami Akira | |
| Ohama Seiichi | Iwabuchi Hiroshi | Kishine Choji | |
| Kashimoto Kazuyoshi | Yamamoto Eiichi | Fujita Masaharu | |
| Nishino Shuhei | Kanai Seikon | Miura Kazuharu | |
| Yano Kenji | Sakai Ryusuke | Hashiguchi Shinobu | |
| Sakuraba Minoru | Furukawa Teruo | Sasaki Noriyoshi | |
| Kamino Masaru | Sakai Hajime | Koga Keizo | |
| Yamamoto Katsuhiro | Mitsubori Haruki | Sato Hiroshi | |
| Orime Tetsuya | Oishi Takeshi | Iida Norihiko | |
| Ogura Yasunori | Imamura Tomio | Shiina Katsutoshi | |
| Izumiya Seizo | Mori Masataka | Mikami Takayuki | |
| Koyama Shojiro | Takashina Shigeru | Kisaka Katsuharu | |
| Takahashi Shu | Ochi Hideo | Sawada Kazuhiro | |
| Naito Takashi | Stan Schmidt | Ken Wittstock | |
| Jorgen Bura | Ted Hedlund | Jose Pacheco | |
| Aoki Osamu | Saeki Minoru | ||
| Honorary members of Instructors Committee |
Sato Yuji | Tsushima Toshio | Tsuyama Katsunori |
International Board of Directors
| Honorary Chairman | Nakahara Nobuyuki | ||
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| Chief Instructor | Ueki Masaaki | ||
| Executive Director | Mori Toshihiro | ||
| Directors | Koyama Shojiro (North, Central America Region) |
Jean-Pierre-Cusson (North, Central America Region) |
Inoue Mitsuo (South America Region) |
| Omura Fujikiyo (Asia-Pacific Region) |
Ochi Hideo (Europe Region) |
Jorgen Bura (Europe Region) |
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| Dr. Amr El-Kadi (Mid-East) |
Manvoumbi Mombo Wapatcha (Africa Region) |
Edward Mtshali (Africa Region) |
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| Mori Masataka (Instructors Committee) |
Mikami Takayuki (Instructors Committee) |
Tanaka Masahiko (Instructors Committee) |
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| Oishi Takeshi (Instructors Committee) |
Osaka Yoshiharu (Instructors Committee) |
Kano Masahiko (Instructors Committee) |
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| Kawasaki Isao (Instructors Committee) |
Tsuyama Katsuhiro (Instructors Committee) |
Yano Kenji (Instructors Committee) |
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| Mori Toshihiro (Instructors Committee) |
Kurasako Kenro (Instructors Committee) |
Kawawada Minoru (Instructors Committee) |
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| Ogura Yasunori (Instructors Committee) |
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Instructor Training Graduates
The following is a list of people who have completed the JKA’s special instructor training program. Please note that some of these individuals are no longer members of the JKA.
| Name | Grad | Current Position | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mikami Takayuki | 1957 | USA | |
| Takaura Eiji | 1957 | ||
| Tsushima Toshio | 1958 | ||
| Yaguchi Yutaka | 1958 | ||
| Ouchi Kyo | 1959 | ||
| Sato Masaki | 1959 | ||
| * | Saito Shigeru | 1959 | |
| Inaba Mitsue | 1960 | ||
| Kano Masahiko | 1960 | ||
| Watanabe Gunji | 1960 | ||
| * | Ogata Kyoji | 1960 | |
| Kisaka Katsuharu | 1961 | USA | |
| Nakaya Ken | 1961 | ||
| Ogawa Eiko | 1961 | ||
| Ueki Masaaki | 1961 | HQ Full-Time Instructor | |
| * | Enoeda Keinosuke | 1961 | |
| Miyazaki Satoshi | 1961 | ||
| * | Mori Osamu | 1961 | |
| * | Takahashi Yoshimasa | 1961 | |
| * | Majima Kenshiro | 1962 | |
| Sakai Ryusuke | 1962 | ||
| Jitsuhara Shoji | 1963 | ||
| Ochi Hideo | 1963 | Germany | |
| Takahashi Yasuoki | 1963 | ||
| * | Itaya Michihisa | 1963 | |
| Oishi Takeshi | 1965 | ||
| * | Tabata Yukichi | 1965 | |
| Takashina Shigeru | 1966 | USA | |
| Higashi Kunio | 1967 | ||
| Iida Norihiko | 1967 | ||
| * | Okamoto Hideki | 1967 | Egypt |
| Takahashi Shunsuke | 1967 | ||
| Yano Kenji | 1967 | ||
| Baba Isamu | 1970 | ||
| Horie Teruo | 1971 | ||
| Nishino Shuhei | 1971 | ||
| * | Hayakawa Norimasa | 1971 | |
| Kanegae Kenji | 1972 | ||
| Osaka Yoshiharu | 1972 | HQ Full-Time Instructor | |
| Sasaki Yoshitaka | 1972 | ||
| Sato Teruo | 1974 | ||
| Mori Toshihiro | 1975 | ||
| Imura Takenori | 1977 | HQ Full-Time Instructor | |
| Kurasako Kenro | 1977 | HQ Full-Time Instructor | |
| Kawawada Minoru | 1978 | HQ Full-Time Instructor | |
| Komaki Masaki | 1978 | ||
| Omura Fujikiyo | 1978 | Thailand | |
| Fukami Akira | 1979 | ||
| Kaneko Taneaki | 1979 | ||
| Sakata Masashi | 1979 | ||
| Abe Miwako | 1980 | ||
| Tsuchii Takayuki | 1980 | ||
| Yamamoto Hideo | 1980 | ||
| Ogura Yasunori | 1982 | HQ Full-Time Instructor | |
| Imamura Tomio | 1983 | HQ Full-Time Instructor | |
| Kashiwagi Nobuyuki | 1984 | ||
| Koike Tsuyoshi | 1984 | ||
| Yokomichi Masaaki | 1984 | ||
| Izumiya Seizo | 1986 | HQ Full-Time Instructor | |
| Shiina Katsutoshi | 1986 | HQ Full-Time Instructor | |
| Hanzaki Yasuo | 1987 | HQ Full-Time Instructor | |
| Nakamura Yoko | 1987 | ||
| Naka Tatsuya | 1989 | HQ Full-Time Instructor | |
| Noda Kenichi | 1990 | ||
| Taniyama Takuya | 1990 | HQ Full-Time Instructor | |
| * | Imai Hiromitsu | 1991 | |
| Takahashi Satoshi | 1992 | HQ Full-Time Instructor | |
| Kobayashi Kunio | 1993 | HQ Full-Time Instructor | |
| Ogata Koji | 1994 | HQ Full-Time Instructor | |
| Walter Crockford | 1996 | ||
| Ikenaga Atsushi | 1996 | ||
| Hirayama Yuko | 1998 | HQ Secretariat | |
| Okuma Koichiro | 1998 | HQ Full-Time Instructor | |
| Iwasawa Mayumi | 1998 | HQ Secretariat | |
| Ubukata Koji | 2003 | ||
| Yamada Satomi | 2004 | ||
| Nemoto Keisuke | 2004 | ||
| Okuie Satomi | 2004 | ||
| Kurihara Kazuaki | 2004 | ||
| Shimizu Ryosuke | 2004 | ||
| Kumeta Riki | 2007 | ||
| Takahashi Yuko | 2008 | ||
| Inokoshi Yusuke | 2008 | ||
| Chubachi Koji | 2009 | HQ Full-Time Instructor | |
| Ueda Daisuke | 2010 | Trainee | |
| Shiina Mai | 2010 | Trainee | |
An asterisk (*) denotes individuals who have passed away