Cover Star: Taiji Kase

Considered one of the best ever Shotokan practitioners, Taiji Kase trained under some of the greatest Shotokan master. This included Gichin Funakoshi, Yoshitaka Funakoshi, Shigeru Egami, Genshin Hironishi and Masatoshi Nakayama. It was Kase that led the JKA delegation, including Hirokazu Kanazawa, Keinosuke Enoeda and Hiroshi Shirai, that gave a series of demonstrations introducing the World to the JKA’s brand of Karate. Below are some of the magazine covers to feature this great Shotokan master, considered to be one of the best instructors to come out of the JKA

November 1988	November 1989	August 1990

July 1995	May 1996	November 2001