JKA-SKC aims to foster, administer and advance the art of traditional JKA Shotokan karate, originally pioneered by the Okinawan Master Gichin Funakoshi and further developed in Japan by Master Masatoshi Nakayama.

Our goal is to educate, motivate, guide and honour our instructors and their students; to promote strict adherence to the ethics on which karate is based.

Our instructors strive to constantly inspire their students and to encourage their regular participation in special courses, gasshukus, seminars, kyu and dan gradings, and in yearly competitions held for both adults and children.

JAPAN KARATE ASSOCIATION

The world’s foremost authority on karate. With a vast membership in over 100 countries, the JKA is the world’s largest and most prestigious karate organization, clearly defining itself as
‘The keeper of karate’s highest tradition.’

The JKA was founded in May, 1949 and by 1955, the first headquarters dojo had been built at Yotsuya in Tokyo. A year later the JKA set up the first-ever karate specialist instructor intern (kenshusei)
training program, and accepted its first round of trainees.

This was the start of the finest karate instructor training program ever created, a program never matched or even attempted by any other karate organization. It is through this program that the JKA has built up its unique cadre of distinguished karate instructors.

Through continuous contribution and its commitment to society, the JKA was recognised in 2012 by the government of Japan as KOEKI SHADAN HOJIN, the only Japanese martial arts association
to date to be given such recognition by its government.

With vigor, the JKA continues to promote true karate around the world.