Shotokan     Others     Listing of United States Senior Karateka

Name

Grade

Association

Dojo

Date Awarded

History

akihito isaka

8

Akio Nagai

8

Brian Fey sr.

7

Florida USA

Bura

7

7

Ed Kiyuna

Kalihi

7th Dan - 1971

1961 - Kanazawa student;

7

Francis Fong

7

Pearl Harbour

Frank Woon-A-Tai

7

Caribbean

Founded ISKF (Canada) in 1980.

Director of Caribbean region.

5

Florida
United States

Fumio Tanaka

7

10

Gichin Funakoshi

??

Deceased. Unclear as to what grade, if any, he ever held. Some say he was awarded 10th dan posthumously and held 5th Dan at death. No proof of this yet

4

Goran Glucina

7

South Pacific

Requires confirmation

Hideki Okamoto

8

Hideo Ochi

8

Hidetaka Nishiyama

9

ITKF

Chief Instructor, also holds 8th dan JKA

Hirokado Ogawa

7

Hirokazu Kanazawa

10

SKIF

Chief Instructor

Hironishi

5

Hiroshi Matsuura

7

Hiroshi Shirai

9

ITKF

Hiroshi Shoji

8

Hitoshi Kasuya

8

WSKF

Chief Instructor

Imura Takenori

7

Iwafuchi

8

James Field

7

7

John Taylor

8

Australia

Junpei Sugano

8

Kano

8

Katsunori Tsuyama

8

Katsutoshi Shiina

7

Katsuya Kisaka

7

Keigo Abe

8

Ex JKA, performed in Bond film 'You only live twice'

Keith Geyer

7

South Pacific

Kenneth Funakoshi

9

Kimio Ito

9

Tokyo

9th Dan- 1991/2

Deceased circa 1996

Koichi Sugimura

8

Leon Sill

7

United States Shotokan Karate Association.

6th Dan JKA/ISKF

Left ISKF circa1999

Leslie Safar

8

Lutie Van Varenberg

6

South Pacific

Maeda

7

malcolm Dorfman

8

Manabu Murakami

7

Mark Willis

5

South Pacific

masaaki ueki

8

Masahiko Tanaka

8

Central Office

Masao Kagawa

7

Masao Kawasoe

8

England

Masaru Miura

8

Masataka Mori

8

Chief Instructor

Masatoshi Nakayama

10

8th Dan - 1964

5th Dan -

1955

Deceased  1913 - 1987.

Maynard Miner

7

7

Traditional Shotokan Schools Of Karate,  EKGB

Executive committee member and technical committee vice-chairman

7

6th Dan - 1995/6

Mikami Takayuki

8

Mikio YAHARA

8

Chief Instructor

Minako Kondo

7

Minoru Kawawada

7

Minoru Miyata

9

8th Dan - 1964

Deceased.

6

Motokuni Sugiura

9

9th Dan- 1991/2

Chief Instructor

N Iwaizumi

7

Najib Amin

7

7

International Association of Shotokan Karate.

First British Karate-ka to be graded to 5th Dan by Sensei Kanazawa.

9

9th Dan- 1991/2

Norihiko Iida

7 or 8

Norman Robinson

8

8th Dan - 2000

Chief Instructor. 8th dan awarded by shihan Asai. Also holds 7th Dan in Judo.

Omura Fujikiyo

7

Osamu Aoki

8

Osamu Ozawa

8

Deceased

6

Paul Kee

5

Paul Wang

7

South Pacific

5

Ray Dalke

8 or 9

7

1st Dan 1959 (Nakayama)

5th Dan 1979 (Nakayama)

7th Dan 1993 (Nishiyama)

Robey Reed

7

Spokane - Washington

Robin Reilly

7

Ron Awa

Kalihi

Sadashige Kato

8

7

Sakata

8

Sasaki Shoichi

7

Sataru Iwai

8

Satoshi Miyazuki

8

Deceased circa 1997

6

Shigeru Takashina

7

7

Shiro Asano

9

Shohei Deguchi

6

South Pacific

5th dan JKA

Shojiro Koyama

7

Shunsuke Takahashi

7

South Pacific

Stan Schmidt

8

Steve Montgomery

6

USA

T.Nishimura

7

South Pacific

Taiji Kase

9

Chief Instructor

Takashi Naito

7

Takayuki Mikami

8

Takeaki Kamiyanagi

9

7

central - dojo

Takeshi Oishi

8

Teruyuki Okazaki

9

Chief Instructor

Tetsuhiko Asai

9

Chief Instructor

Tetsuo Odake

8

Tomiko Mitsuoka

7

Highest rank female?

Tomio Imamura

7

Toru Miyazaki

8

Toru Yamaguchi

8

Tsutomu Oshima

5

Chief Instructor (highest grade is 5th Dan), 8th Dan JKA?

3

Y. Ogura

7

Yasuyuki Fujinaga

8

Yoshiaki Habu

8

Yoshiharu Osaka

8

Yutaka Yaguchi

8

ISKF

6

Wado ryu

Chief Instructor

6

7

7

Wado ryu

Chief Instructor

7

7

8

Shukokai

Chief Instructor

8

Kyokushinkai

Chief Instructor

Ticky Donovan

8

5

7

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