The Year of Sensei Hidetaka Nishiyama Legacy

The Year of Sensei Hidetaka Nishiyama Legacy

We are happy to announce “2018 – The Year of Sensei Hidetaka Nishiyama’s Legacy”.

2018 is a very special time because in this year is the 90th anniversary of Sensei Nishiyama’s birthday and the 10th anniversary of his passing away.

It is to express our respect for our teacher, one of the greatest masters of karate in the 20th century – Sensei Hidetaka Nishiyama. It is thanks to him that traditional karate-do has spread in such a splendid fashion all over the world. In all we do we recall his legacy and follow tradition.

In 2018 WTKF would like to organize a plenty of traditional karate-do seminars and tournaments which will be part of “The year of Sensei Hidetaka Nishiyama’s legacy” and will be dedicated to his memory. The courses and seminar will be conducted by the most experienced instructors who have developed this martial arts together with Sensei Nishiyama for many years.

The upcoming International Traditional Karate-do Seminar Winter Gasshuku will be inaugural event.