Many of you have probably heard the name Kenji Kurosaki, 10th dan, but do not know so much about this man.
He was born into an old fashioned Samurai family, on the 15th March 1930, on the outskirts of Tokyo.
Around 1951 he joined the Yamaguchi Karate style of Goju Ryu and trained there together with Masutatsu Oyama.
In 1953 Kancho Oyama and Kurosaki Sensei decided to make their own style and called it Kyokushinkaikan.

Kancho Oyama was the one responsible for Public Relations.
There are a lot of "myths" surrounding Kancho Oyama but Kurosaki Sensei, who stayed more in the background, was the Instructor and real mean fighter.
Kurosaki Sensei is still remembered as the meanest of the mean and people in Japan still shudder when they hear his name.
In I976, due to various political problems with Kancho Oyama and the fact that he was not happy about the commercial direction Kyokushinkai was taking, Kurosaki Sensei broke away from Kancho Oyama.

He started his own Dojo, the Mejiro Gym, (now called the Kurosaki Dojo) which quickly became and still is, one of the leading Japanese Kick Boxing Dojos in Japan.
Among his students, Kurosaki Sensei has had many great Champions.
The first was Jon Bluming Sensei who eventually became the only European to be promoted to l0th Dan in Japan.
In Thai and Japanese Kick Boxing, Kurosaki's biggest successes were the famous fighters Fujiwara and Fujihira.
Today Kenji Kurosaki is a very important and influential man in Tokyo. He still runs his Kick Boxing Dojo and he is the Honorary President of The International Budo Kaikan.