Hatsuo Royama - 9th dan, Kancho (Director) of the Kyokushin-kan International Honbu. Kenji Kurosaki - He is a 7th Dan Black Belt in Kyokushin Karate and operates various martial schools focusing in different arts. He is most well known as a pioneer of Full-Contact Karate and Kickboxing in both Japan and Netherlands. This is a title many of you will be familiar with as GKR Karate has used this term for over 20years now. Shi-han is comprised of two Kanji. The first, 'Shi' means a 'Head-teacher or Master'. The second, 'Han' could be translated as 'Model' (like a role model or example). Its frequently translated as 'Expert teacher'. To my knowledge Kancho refers to one who is the head/founder of a shoot off the original art as in Kancho Shioda who created Yoshinkan aikido from O Sensei ueshiba's aikido. Sensei which I remember Kanazawa sensei preferred means "One who has gone before" Tameshiwari. 100 Man Kumite. Tournament Rules. Kyokushin Organizations. IKO Kyokushinkaikan - Kancho Shokei Matsui. WKO ShinKyokushinkai - Kancho Kenji Midori. IKO Matsushima - Kancho Yoshikazu Matsushima. Kyokushinkan - Kancho Hatsuo Royama. IKO Sosai Kyokushinkai Kan - Kuristina Oyama. Kancho Robert McInnes. Known in the World of Karate as The Kancho of Shorin Kempo Kaikan and President of one of the worlds largest Japanese Karate Organization (WKO), Robert McInnes has built not just a Global Karate Organization but is one of the first Non Japanese to govern a Japanese Karate Organization. csyLq8.

kancho meaning in karate