updated years_active teacher nationality students name birth_date rank article_title birth_name style
march 2014 1959 -- 2012 tatsuo shimabuku okinawan jim la rocco angi uezu january 3 , 1935 10th degree black belt angi uezu
 chiyaranka city , saipan isshinryū
angi uezu

angi uezu -lrb- january 3 , 1935 - -rrb- is the former head of one of the major isshin-ryu karate organizations , the okinawan isshin-ryu karate kobudo association -lrb- o.i.k.k.a. , founded in 1990 -rrb- .
he is the son-in-law of the system 's founder , shimabuku tatsuo , and a 10th degree black belt .
he was born in chiyaranka city on the island of saipan .
he was injured by american machine gun fire on saipan in wwii .
his family moved to okinawa after wwii .
he married yukiko shimabuku , the third daughter of tatsuo shimabuku , with whom he had a son , in 1957 and received his black belt in isshin-ryu karate in 1959 .
he is now retired from teaching martial arts and lives in iribaru , uruma city .
master uezu , although retired from teaching , comes to the united states occasionally to hold seminars .
angi was inducted into the isshin-ryū hall of fame in 1997 .
he is the co-author -lrb- with joseph jennings -rrb- of the book `` the encyclopedia of isshin ryu karate : book one beginner to green belt '' .
