Richard Sun Sung Kim

Richard Sun Sung Kim is been born to Papaaloa, in the Hawaii, 17 November 1917. Its mother was Korean half and Japanese half and called Tok Nam Park, while its father was of all Korean and Mong Young Kim was called. Its insurance certificate of 1937 declares that it was of stirpe Korean, but effetivamente was in Japanese part and Korean part. Known from many with the Biggie nickname (it had a brother smaller than he, therefore called Smallie) has been grown from the mother to Pearl City, in the vicinities of the Hawaii. Between its infantile friendships there were Betty Nakamura, I know Young and Junichi Buto (than as we will see it gave an active contribution to its future life). To the age of six years its mother enrolled it to a held course of judo from sensei Kaneko. In 1927 the Kim young person could assist to one demonstration of karate to the Ymca Nuuanu from part of Yabu Kentsu. Yabu Kentsu was in visit to the Hawaii on the way of the return to Okinawa.
The Kim young person remained therefore hit from its demonstration that was enrolled endured to a held course of karate from Sadao Arakaki (has been documented that sensei Kim was trained also with Ankichi Arakaki that, but, never did not visit the Hawaii. Sadao Arakaki was the disciple of Yabu Kentsu in the Hawaii). Many of the kata one of sensei Kim had the prefixed Yabu, as Yabu Chinto (sensei Kim me have said personally, this are the reason for which it has them calls Yabu to you Chinto, etc). In the 1930 Richard Kim it finishes the studies near one of the more ancient advanced schools of the Hawaii, MKINLEY High, that it was founded in 1865 to Honolulu, in the Hawaii. The school principamente was attended from students orients them, with 84% of Asian students us. These have been the roots that have allowed Richard Kim to become one of the main pioneers of the karate ones in America, above all in the fields of the search and the journalism. Later on it continued the studies near the University of Hawaii (has not been graduated near this university), to the Tung Wen College where it has studied the languages and the art of the investigation and near the St John' s University, both to Shangai, China, during the Second World war. A documentation of the achieved lauree neither of the period passed in this university does not exist, although sensei Kim has declared to have achieved one bachelor near the St John' s University. It said personally to me when the churches for how much time had studied near the St John' s University:
"We put it therefore, was incredible that that you could obtain from the persons when you had a gun to your flank and made part of the Kempei Tei, during the Second World war". In the 1933 Richard Kim Mutsu Mizuho met and Mizuho Takada was trained with he (was a student of Gichin Funakoshi), than from Tokio it had come in visit to the Hawaii with Kamesuke Higashionna. In the 1933 sensei Kim it was trained also with sensei Tachinaba to Honolulu. The young person Richard Kim passed very many time to the arena Sato Boxing Gym in Maunakea Street. Here, like many other hawaiani young people, acquired its abilities in boxare, while it was trained and boxava with that, to the age, were the best contendenti of the world, comprised Midgett Wolgast (champion of the World of the weights piuma in 1930), of which it made sparring the partner. Same it made 42 encounter on the ring, succeeding to obtain the record of 42 to 0. These were the classics "smokers" of 1930. In a combat sensei Kim nearly lost the sight to the left eye after to have received ditata one, because of the resin cosparsa on the guantone of its adversary. In 1935 it entered in the merchant marine and soon one headed towards East in order to continue the study of the martial limbs. Finally it found its road in Japan, where it studied with great karate masters of of the age, comprised the leggendario Yabu Kentsu, that it remembered to have admired from child to the Hawaii. Endured Divenne obvious that making part of the merchant marine allowed it to travel in all the East and to acquire the acquaintance of whom it would have become its scope of life and its greater passion: the martial limbs. In the long run, its career like mercantile sailor, to the dependencies of the American Presidents Linens, carried it to being captured beyond the enemy lines 8 Decembers 1944, to Shangai during the Second World war, to the age of 23 years (remembered that 7 December 1943 was the day in which the Japanese attaccarrono Pearl Harbour). According to the Union of the sailors of the Pacific many ships came captured from the Japanese and interned in Asia until the end of the war. One of these was the Ss President Harrison sulla which, to those times, Richard Sun Sung Kim worked, simple sailor.
The captain of the ship, Orel Pierson, having to affronatare a Japanese combat aircraft loaded with bombs and machine-guns and having a ship of Japanese navy to the calcagna, decides to make to strand of purpose the Ss Harrison near the island of Shaweishan, so that the Japanese could not have used it. The Ss Harrison was directed to Shangai in order to evacuate the fourth Us marines because of the beginning of the War, when official name with the which viniva one designated a type of aircraft from Japanese hunting was intercepted from one Zero Japanese () that the intimò to stop itself shooting one mitragliata to the prow. That one was the moment in which the captain taken the decision to head for the Shaweishan Islands being made to break the ship at a reef and rendering it unusable for the Japanese army, inasmuch as already it was equipped for the transport of troops. To the end, the Japanese army made it to repair and it used it however for the transport of troops. It remained to Shangai for all the duration of the Second World war, second the author de the prisoners of Shangai, nobody came rilasciato before, eccezion made for two persons, a man and a flight attendant, that the amputated legs had both. Therefore not there are doubts that were lì during the war. Thanks to its origins, Japanese from mother part and Korean from father part, were not seen like the other Americans. Divenne soon a translator (spoke, in fact, running she is Japanese who English and was therefore perfect canditato) and, finally, she came used like counterpart of a high Japanese civil employee without name, to which he she referred calling it only colonel (in the Japanese army did not exist the colonel degree, the equivalent was general greater). According to my notes and after to have spoken with some its pupils about the first period, it has been just in this period that knew many high Japanese officials, comprised general greater Kenji Doihara (Lawrence of Asia), that 23 December 1948 came then hanged person for war crimes. According to Hiroshi Kinjo, one of the associates of sensei Kim in Years ` 50, sensei Kim said to it of to have been to Shangai during the Second World war and to have Ago studied Chuan or the Chinese martial limbs. Hiroshi Kinjo has added also that sensei Kim was not much available one to speak about its past, of its origins and very rarely it said something on the years of the war. While it was in China, Richard Kim studied tai who chuan under the instruction of Chen Chin Yuan, and pa kua following the guide of Hsu Chao Lie, a monaco taoista.
Later on, Wang Xiang Zhay taught the yi to it chuan. Great part of its training carried out in the Jessfield Park who hour is called Zhongshan Park. All the English names were change to you in Chinese after the revolution of Mao Tse Tung. Wang was a famous Chinese master of the inner system. It met subsequently for before the time Yoshida Kotaro in the city of Sendai (in the north of Japan) towards the end of 1930 and also in 1941 to Shanghai when Kotaro was working like spy for the Japanese, like it had made also to Manchuria and in the war Russian-Japanese. According to other books that I have read, Shanghai, during the war, was full of spies from all sides because of the numerous citizens of various nations that lived to you. The Russians worked for the Chinese, the Chinese worked for the Japanese, the Germans for the sensei Russians and were enough logical who Kim, a Korean, same working for the Japanese. Sensei Kim told to many of we that a day, to the end of the war, was to house of one of the Japanese officials to Shanghai, which it had have ud of of its services like translator, when they knocked to the door. She was an official American, 1° luogotenente Junichi Buto. Fortunately for sensei Kim, Junichi Buto was the same friend of infancy of the Hawaii that had protect from boy, otherwise would have been found again in large troubles. Junichi Buto was considered the responsible of the expulsion of sensei Kim from Shanghai and of its consequent dismissal to the repatriated Hawaii like. Knowing sensei Kim well, Junichi Buto was not surprised to find Kim in this complicated situation sensei and it said to it that it turned out that it was been involved in something of the sort and it did not make more questions. According to three sources the Japanese name of sensei Kim was Masaki and probably it was what Junichi Buto was trying. 27 september 1945 was boarded on a called hospital ship "Refuge", previously known as the "Us President Madison", for a short travel that made it to land to Naha Okinawa to the end of september 1945. It was here that, with to others 454 it repatriates to you, military, women and children, was put on the "Uss Sanctuary" Saint destination Francisco. He was enough normal, because of the prejudgments in Japan towards Korean, than these last ones they took names Japanese Mas Oyama as an example is a Japanese name but it was Korean to 100%.
The "Uss Sanctuary" had avoided with succeeding a typhoon during navigation, when one called from the commando of 5° the fleet for the "Uss Sanctuary" arrived to return to Naha Okinawa for that operation was called "magical carpet". 18 October of 1945 disembarked from the "Uss Sanctuary" to the Hawaii and it gathered with its family. After solo three months and a short visit of the Hawaii with its family and a medical control, sensei Kim returned in Japan since its search on the martial limbs was incomplete. Subsequently it continued to move between the Hawaii and Japan. In the Hawaii it visited, it trained and it taught to many the karate ones dojo. During this period sensei Kim it worked for the President' s Shipping Linens (in the prow department). E' brought back in a process of the coastgard American who, in August 1949, the sailors Manuel Medeiros and Richard On Sung Kim were been involved in a rissa with knives to edge of the Ss Wilson, during which the two was attacks to you from a band that appealled knives and was hurt. They were defended using axes from National Fire Department when they were forced to withdraw towards an angle. Nobody was victim of a murder, but that sure extension like sensei Kim had to use its martial limbs more than once. Often it has shown those cuts on the numerous arms and has told its history to its students. The rissa it began when a drunk sailor violentemente hit Madeiros to the head with one bottle of whisky. Approximately between 1948 and the 1949 sensei Kim were moved definitively from the Hawaii to Japan where it studied with many masters of martial limbs. In the 1949 it was trained under the guide of Kenichi Sawai, that it was one student of Wang Xiang Zhay to Shanghai. Sawai never did not teach the closed one, in fact its lessons were kept to the base of tempio the Meiji to Tokyo where all the Japanese heroes of war are buried. The book of called Sawai Taikei Ken is one of those rarest books on the martial limbs that its style represents, learned directly from Wang Xiang Zhay. Sawai supported beyond 100 combats and of not lost never one. It used alone 8 techniques that had learned from master Wang. Subsequently sensei Kim was assumed from the Union Sailors of the Pacific like they agent of the Yokohama branch (office), worked in tightened contact with Harry Lundberg. Which time ahead carried its studies of the martial limbs every the ship on which was boarded landed in a new port and had the occasion to visit an other new school of martial limbs. It was in 1959 that it made of Saint Francisco, California, its permanent base. Sensei Kim married four times. Its first moglie was of Russian origin and came killed during an aerial strafing to Shanghai. It met its second moglie to Honolulu, this was of Korean origin and entirety had a son. Subsequently to Yokohama third moglie knew its, from which it had a daughter, that it was educated in America. Thanks to the family of its third moglie, origne Japanese, Okinawan, could meet the master of karate Hiroshi Kinjo, since Hiroshi Kinjo came from the same country of the suocero of sensei Kim (often Richard Kim called Hiroshi Kinjo an encyclopedia that walks).
Kinjo was a famous artist of martial limbs and was associated to Ohno Kumau, the ideatore of the reform of From the nippon butoku kai. To the beginning to sensei Kim it came introduced (as the head of the Black Dragon Society in 1927) thanks to Toyomo Mitsuru wanted the Japanese custom) sensei Ohno (. Sensei Ono (as it came called from sensei Kim) was one of the most famous masters kendo of Japan. It fought more than 100 encounter and never it was not defeated. Sensei Kim was recommended from Hiroshi Kinjo to Ono sensei for its 7°, 8° and 9° degree of black belt. It must emphasize to this point as From nippon butoku kai (the Dnbk) and the martial limbs in a generalized manner were disorganized in all Japan. To nobody it was allowed to practice them from when general Douglas Mac Arthur it had announced publicly to them in all the country. Mac Arthur also was convinced that From the nippon butoku kai it was one of the reasons that it made to burst the Second World war, since many high officials of were members and she thought therefore that they had had a fundamental role in the explosion of the conflict. It would moreover have to point out that the Dnbk was one strongly sostenitrice of the emperor and its members believed firmly in the budo and in the samurai. This was indicated in the same name, to bu=militare, toku = virtue, kai=organizzazione. There were some exhibitions of martial limbs to that time, but they were undoubtedly off board. From the nippon butoku kai officially it was not reformed until 1954 when riattivata under the auspices of a member of the Japanese Assembly called But Chino and of the leggendario Ohno Kumao. With the end of the war, as it happens of usual, they came hangs one to you great amount of roghi with documents guarded during the war. These included the relative documentations to the Dnbk, therefore there is much confusion R-with regard to who made some or of it did not make part truly. This is the reason for which many they think that From the nippon butoku kai of according to post-war period it had its roots in the Black Dragon Society, a group of élite of spies that were dedicated to the restoration of the ideals of the bushido, to throw outside the aliens and to restore the imperial reign. Sensei Kim and its third moglie possessed and managed a called bar Pilot House to Yokohama. Famous E' that such bar was attended from sailors Americans in visit to Yokohama. The Pilot famous House divenne also between the artists of martial limbs that lived to Tokio and Yokohama.
They gathered lì since thought that it was a place where liberations could be found again and speak about that they loved. It was in this place that sensei Kim knew many legends, between which still Yoshida Kotaro that had met for before the time to Sendai and then still to Shanghai in 1941. With the time Yoshida Kotaro its family for seven years moved itself from sensei Kim and, from 1949 to 1956 approximately. During that period it trained also karate shotokan with Minatoya, than affittò from sensei Kim one room to according to plan of the Pilot House. Yoshida left when sensei Kim began its job for the merchant marine and had to be embarked newly. Yoshida had a "strange one schivata" as it would say sensei, but one of the things on which sensei Yoshida it insisted was the training with many of the best Japanese masters, between which Moreihei Ueshiba (founding of the aikido) in its dojo to Wakumatsu Cho, where sensei Kim divenne much friend of the best students, between which Nobuyoshi Tamura, than it was moved in France in 1964. Tamura was one of the uke favorite of Ueshiba and is also present in numerous films on Ueshiba. To its flank it was trained for a year from the 6 to the 9 6 days to week. It was Yoshido Kotaro that trained sensei Kim to become skillful with the Japanese crews, between which the sword, the nozzle, the a lot and the bo. It taught also the art of the aiki.
Nel 1952 Yoshida sensei delivered to Richard Kim its Menkyo Kaiden, certificate of complete acquaintance, rilasciato dal master to one student prechosen, thought to be adapted to carry the style ahead. It gave moreover of the coils that brought back the history of the Daito ryu and of all its techniques. Today these coils are of property of the quarter moglie of sensei Kim, mrs. May Kim. May Kim alive to Sacramento, in California. When sensei Kim met it for before time deeply remained fascinated from its canore abilities and with the time innamorò of she. It used to often say that nothing was too much good for its moglie. May Kim is one faithful protecting sostenitrice and of the name of sensei Kim, of its reputation and inheritance. It continues to direct the "Way of mankind", an organization that is struck for a better well-being than all. Perhaps Peter Urban was exaggerating when he asserted in its book "The karate sensei" that Richard Kim had than 100 proposals more than wedding, but is absolutely sure that was admired and loved from many. "its intelletto often annoyed the intellectual pigmei" an other citation from the book of sensei Urban. During this period he studied also with Gogen "the cat" Yamaguchi, and is he that Mas divennero Oyama belt brown in 1948-49 and will receive theirs shodan from Yamaguchi Gogen in 1950.
This happened hardly before that Oyama was moved on mountains in order to train itself for 18 months under suggestion of Sou In the Chu, that was one of the oldest and better students than Yamaguchi. Oyama is sensei that sensei Kim, during the successive and short period of time, divennero optimal friends and continued to train themselves together. In the book of Mas Oyama of 1958, edition review of "Cos' is the karate ones" (written in 1956), sensei Kim comes ringraziato for the aid given in the drawing up of the book of Oyama. It in many photos to the inside of the book while impersona the uke of Oyama can itself also be seen. During same lasso of time also Peter Urban it began the training with Mas Oyama. That succeeded since was sensei Kim to introduce Oyama to Urban, also present he in the book of Oyama. Sensei Kim and Oyama were effectively benefactor one of the other, that mean that if one of they had been victim of a murder, the other would have inherited all the assets lands of the other. According to Hiroshi Kinjo, he and Richard Kim many straits were friends and Kinjo taught to sensei Kim much kata, between which chinto, kusanku-dai/sho kandu from and the many others. Kinjo and Toyama Kanken taught also the several shapes to it of Okinawa crews, since Kinjo was a famous master of Okinawa karate/kobudo. Official representative was designated of From the nippon butoku kai for the karate ones. The role then passed to Gogen Yamaguchi in the half of 1970. It was Hiroshi Kinjo that advised to sensei Oyama and sensei Kim the parterns of training for the 7° dan. Later on it advised sensei Kim R-with regard to From the nippon butoku kai is for the 8° dan that for the 9° dan. Sensei Kim obtained its 9° dan to the beginning of 1968, also from From the nippon butoku kai. This is the maximum degree that a person alive can catch up, only a dying person can be promoted to the 10° dan.
This came made sensei Kim when instructor Hidetaka Nishiyama of the International Traditional died in the 2001 from the main head Karate-gives Federation to the memorial of sensei Kim to Sacramento. It was promoted to 10° dan also from the Hawaii karate Kondanshakai 14 May 1999. Sensei Kim never did not use its degree of 9° dan if not to the beginning of 1990. We do not have idea of because it has made it. An explanation can be that it thought had been prematurely delivered from Higashi Fushime (the prince to it of Japan) whose I seal official is on the certificate. Some say that these certify to you were counterfeit to you but when we have shown them to a history expert of the Japanese martial limbs to the university of Kyoto, this has answered to us saying that they do not seem to be counterfeit and the fact that numbers do not show it means very little. After the war, sensei Kim continued to behind move ahead and between Japan and the United States like mercantile sailor. During this period it often returned also to the Hawaii teaching and training in many dojo of karate, between which dojo You Ken Jutsu Kai di Masaichi Oshiro (orginariamente student of kenpo karate of William H. Chow and subsequently student goju-ryu of Gogen Yamaguchi). In 1957 it visited Saint Francisco while its job of delegated of the Union of the sailors representing the other mercantile sailors continued. It travelled wide also in all the East while it worked on the ships as 3° stewart in it loads with the crew who took cure of the passengers. It returned in Japan in 1957 and tried to obtain a permanent status but because of its debatable one passed in Japan, was denied to it and in 1959 it returned permanently in the United States. Moreover it was in 1957 that it met Clarence Lee and it began to teach karate in the garage of its mother in Traval Street, to Saint Francisco. Its first group of students in the United States included Clarence Lee, Richard Lee and Herbert Lee, all then become many skillful thanks to the instructions of sensei Kim. During that period met Duke Moore that was one of the pioneers of the martial limbs Americans and in whose school to Street Market made of the lessons. It was in this sensei club that Kim taught also the judo. In the 1961 Tony Log it began its training and little after, in 1962, City Trejo joined with to the Lenore daughter and to the other sons. The dojo of Street Market it was one of those dojo special in the United States where the practical one of the martial limbs was constant and unstoppable. Wally Jay, Willy Cahill, Harold Getz, Jerry Streeter, the Roy Rodriguez, Johnny Perriera were the names of numerous the other athletes who taught and they were trained in this dojo. When I interviewed the Roy Rodriguez, that it was one of the first students of sensei, he could not emphasize the severità of the training in those enough dojo.
It said that to a sure point Chuck Siani it was being trained for a great competition judo and they trained for three hours every day without to stop itself. Trocchi, Chuck and Robert Leong and little others were trained hardly. According to Siani and Rodriguez, the bases and the allenalento to the carpet of sensei Kim were exceptional. When it lived to Shanghai was student to the Shanghai Busen. Michigami was one of the true legends judo that it taught to Shanghai. Sensei Kim to the end was moved in the Chinese quarter Ymca to China Town around to 1964 to the 855 of Sacramento Street. Clarence Lee had founded the program of karate Chinese Ymca and gave the assignment to sensei Kim. Sensei Kim was the not ufficale international representative of From the nippon butoku kai, instituting other centers in the United States, in Canada, in Germany and France. In the 1959, when sensei Kim it was moved from Japan to the United States, lived in the quarter Haight Ashbury to Saint Francisco, during the revolution of the hippies of years ` 60 and ` 70. It instituted the Zen beautiful butoku kai that later on Butoku was called kai that ill-fatedly carried much confusion and numerous misunderstandings. Many thought that this was the official From the nippon butoku kai, but it it was not. All it certifys delivered to you during this period indicated Zen beautiful butoko kai and not From the nippon butoko kai. According to sensei Kim, it was asked to make to it that from the responsible of that period Ohno Kumao. E' necessary to emphasize that to the time of the Second World war the practical one of the martial limbs was not allowed. The judo a sport was considered rather than a martial art. This until the 8 september 1951, when the peace treaty was signed that allowed once again to the martial limbs of being practiced in Giapone. Every martial art instituted the own federation even if it can be presumed that, considering the state of things in Japan after the Second World war, the martial limbs were not to head of the list of the priorities of the persons. It was more important to survive; to procurarsi living and to replace in feet Japan. There are little documents available of From the nippon butoko kai since was considered a group nationalist of extreme right, in fact it was not eliminated from the list of the enemies of the United States until the 1973 from the president Richard Nixon under demand for sensei Kim. sensei Memory that Kim often said that this was one of the little good things that Nixon made. Personally creed that sensei Kim considered that one of its greater attainments. During a travel of square in Japan in 1977 for the International Amateur Traditional Karate Federation Richard Kim Ohno met sensei and three degrees dan for aliens were given to it. Sensei Kim organized for the square a turn in the ancient one to quanrtiere of From the nippon butoku kai to Kyoto, constituted in 1895. Although these certify to you are not numbered, are signed from Ohno Kumao and bring official its segillo.
Sensei Kim continued as an example to develop the Zen beautiful butoku kai (butoku kai) outside from Japan for the successes to you 15 years. It was settled down in fact also in Canada, France, England and Finland. At the beginning of 1990 it gave the dimissioni from From the nippon butoko kai since the old guard was changed and a new one From the nippon butoku kai was being born. One was heading towards sensei a different direction and Kim chose not to take part to their plans. Sensei Kim often said to have obtained 3 lauree in political Sciences, Philosophy orients them and martial Limbs. It in fact received a bachelor from the Rockwell College to the Eurotechnical University, from the Universal Life Church and supports to have some received also from the St John' s University to Shanghai in Chinese political Sciences, bachelor that he obtained during the Second World war. In spite of the Rockwell University and the Universal Life credited Church they are uiversità, while the St John' s University was a university much prestigious one before the Second world war, cannot be had confirmation of the bachelor, since the university was obviously sluice during the war. We do not have in fact some copy of these certifys to you from the moment that sensei Kim is not more with we. The fact could seem strange to many that it dedicated to all its life to the instruction of the martial limbs, but its love for they was obvious. This divenne clearly to all observing it while it guided groups of students in California, Massachussets, Canada and also in Europe. The lucky people who have had the possibility to experience its energy and the passion for the martial limbs know esattamento what mean. Chuck Cianni has told sensei an amusing history to us enough and only who has known Kim can imagine that she can be true. Chuck churches to sensei Kim if it went it to go with he to a lesson of calculations. Sensei answered that it it would be piaciuto a lot to go. After little minuteren that seated in the classroom, sensei Kim were in feet in front of all the class, teaching, with the university professor that seated, listening and learning. Richard Kim was also a distinguished author of books. It wrote books classics like: - The weaponless Warrior, 1974 - Tha classical man, 1982 - The Okinawan Kobudo weapons series including the weapons of Matsu Higa, 1983 - Chatan Yara, 1985 - Hama Higa, 1987 Sensei Kim figured also on the places setting some of numerous reviews, without to count the articles that wrote and that they wrote on he and that they came publishes to you in many worthy banns of famous in the world of the martial limbs, between which the reviews Dojo and Budo. It wrote regularly for Black Belt Magazine and Karate Illustrated during the beginning of 1970. In its rubrica The Classical Man it published short history on artists of the martial limbs and their vicessitudini.
They represented a particular philosophy or gave psychological instructions and its rubrica was most popular of the review. In the years they came delivered many acknowledgments to it and some between the more important to remember are following:
- the degree of 4° caught up dan in the judo during the Second World war;
- in 1967 it came insignito of the prize "Sensei of the year" from the review Black Belt;
- in 1968 it came cited from "Who is who of the Martial Limbs"
- in the 1968 divenne director of the US world-wide teams to It samples Iakf and it maintained the position to you for many years to come;
- in the 1970 divenne inner instructor to the Hidetaka Nishiya to the summery field of Saint Diego (until its dead women);
- from 1970 to 1990 he was official teaching of crews for the Jka in agreement with Keinosuke Enoeda;
- in 1973 "Man of the year" was elect from the review Black Belt;
- in 1977 he was head instructor to the summery field Guelph Ontario, in Canada (until its dead women);
- 14 May 1999 the Hawaii karate Kodanshakai introduced the certificate n. 65 to sensei Kim for the 10° dan.
This prestigious organization gave high acknowledgments to other remarkable masters of martial limbs like Bobby Lowe, Kenneth Funaksohi and James Miyaji; - in 2001 one of most famous was promoted posthumous to 10° dan the Judan from sensei Hidetaka Nishiyama (and respects to you masters of karate living), companion of karate in order much time and old friend from 1961. E' clearly that Richard Kim impersonò the spirit of the martial limbs dominated to the scene being a life artist