Yes... you ' re reading Black Belt magazine, not a travel guide, and yes... this is the skyline of New York, of the " Big Apple ", the city where Master Oyama, a key figure in the history of Matsutatsu Oyama ' s Karate, lives.
Our guest is perhaps the most prestigious master in Kyokushinkai Karate world-wide. Shiger u Oyama( to whose family owes the Kancho his name, since, as almost everyone knows, Masutatsu Oyama was Korean), settled in America in 1967, which very probably put him aside from the possibility of becoming the official successor of the legendar y cr eator of Kyokushinkai. Our partner Salvador Herraiz recently traveled to New York to meet Master Shigeru Oyama and brings us here today his histor y, thoughts and wor ds in another of Salvador ' s epic stories that, step by step, month by month from these pages, go on unveiling the secrets of the karate history. Don ' t miss it!
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