Taira Sensei is a retired police officer and a 9th dan in Okinawa Goju Ryu Karate Do. Taira Sensei heads the Okinawa Goju Ryu Kenkyukai, is best known as a researcher and practitioner of the bunkai of the Goju Ryu kata, and is renown for being unusually open in his teachings, feeling that the techniques and learning must be shared, for their preservation and to test their effectiveness.