Tokorozawa, Saitama
Yoshiji Soeno was born in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture. From childhood, Soeno was very interested in martial arts, and learned Judo. Originally he found that Karate was not strong compared to Judo, but Karate was evolving and becoming much stronger. He first studied Wado-ryu Karate-Jujutsu a while.