Karate My Life
Kanazawa Hirokazu was born in Iwate Prefecture, Japan, in 1931. After graduating from Takushoku Universityin 1958, he entered the first intake of the Japan Karate Association's live-in instructor's course. On graduation he became on of the pioneers of karate's globalization, Living and instructing in Hawaii and throughout Europe. In 1978 he formed the Shotokan Karate-Do International Federatin, which he still heads. He continues to tirelessly promote karate built on the "way of harmony", teaching in more than 100 contries around the world.