Editing Karate (section)

====United States====
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After World War II, members of the [[United States military]] learned karate in Okinawa or Japan and then opened schools in the US. In 1945, [[Robert Trias]] opened the first ''dōjō'' in the United States in [[Phoenix, Arizona]], a Shuri-ryū karate ''dōjō''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://suncoastkarate.com/about-Trias.html|title=About Grandmaster Robert Trias|last=Harty|first=Sensei Thomas|website=suncoastkarate.com|access-date=2018-02-13|archive-date=29 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180529092150/http://suncoastkarate.com/about-Trias.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In the 1950s, [[William J. Dometrich]], [[Ed Parker]], [[Cecil T. Patterson]], [[Gordon Doversola]], [[Harold G. Long]], [[Donald Hugh Nagle]], [[George Mattson (martial artist)|George Mattson]] and [[Peter Urban (karate)|Peter Urban]] all began instructing in the US.

[[Tsutomu Ohshima]] began studying karate under Shotokan's founder, Gichin Funakoshi, while a student at Waseda University, beginning in 1948. In 1957, Ohshima received his godan (fifth-degree black belt), the highest rank awarded by Funakoshi. He founded the first university karate club in the United States at [[California Institute of Technology]] in 1957. In 1959, he founded the Southern California Karate Association (SCKA) which was renamed [[Shotokan Karate of America]] (SKA) in 1969.

In the 1960s, Anthony Mirakian, [[Richard Kim (karate)|Richard Kim]], [[Teruyuki Okazaki]], [[John Pachivas]], [[Allen Steen]], Gosei Yamaguchi (son of [[Gōgen Yamaguchi]]), [[Michael G. Foster]] and Pat Burleson began teaching martial arts around the country.<ref>The Original Martial Arts Encyclopedia, [[John Corcoran (martial arts)|John Corcoran]] and Emil Farkas, pgs. 170–197</ref>

In 1961, [[Hidetaka Nishiyama]], a co-founder of the [[Japan Karate Association]] (JKA) and student of Gichin Funakoshi, began teaching in the United States. He founded the International Traditional Karate Federation (ITKF). [[Takayuki Mikami]] was sent to New Orleans by the JKA in 1963.

In 1964, [[Takayuki Kubota]] relocated the International Karate Association from Tokyo to California.