Japan Karate-Do Federation
Martial Arts Club in Mission Viejo, CA
The Japan Karate-Do Federation was set up in the US in 1959 by Shihan Dan Ivan. Mr. Ivan holds Black Belts in Karatedo (eighth Dan) Judo (third Dan) Aikido (first Dan) and Kendo (first Dan) Mr. Ivan is regarded as one of the first American pioneers of Japanese Martial Arts and trained in Japan from 1948 to 1956. He was only one of a few Americans to train at the Kodokan after World War II and he holds the distinction of being the 1st American issued a Dan rank in Aikido.
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read morePlease renew your 2021 AAU membership by September 1st or you will not be able to train on the mats. The Japan Karate-Do Federation has one of the most impressive backgrounds of Martial Arts Organizations in the United States, as well as around the world teaching traditional Japanese Shotokan Karate. Japan has a long history of importing, synthesizing and recreating aspects of other cultures, a practice that continues to this day. The primary source of such cultural borrowing in Japan's early history was China, whose civilization existed for centuries at a high level hardly seen in other parts of Asia.
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