Hideo Nakamura

Hideo Nakamura, born Kang Chang-Soo in Pyongyang in 1913 and died in 2013, was a karateka from the Korean Peninsula who became the first president of the Karatedo Kendokai with the rank of 10th dan. He began martial arts at the age of nine under his uncle, moved to mainland Japan at fourteen and took up karate in earnest, studied law at Kyoto Imperial University while teaching at the Budo Senmon Gakko, and was awarded a 6th dan renshi by the Dai Nippon Butoku Kai in 1943. He founded the Shutokukan dojo in Kofu in 1947, became the first chairman of the Yamanashi Karatedo Federation formed in 1957, and established the Karatedo Kendokai in 1983. He was also known for rafter cutting, splitting timber with bare hands.