Ordinary citizens embrace Karate as a sport and physical fitness regime

Sensei Koichiro Okuma, 6th DAN, Japan Karate Association, JKA, Headquarters demonstrate to Instructors in an extension training at Impala Club during the Japan Karate Association for a Five days East Africa Regional Gasshuku Training Camp at Kasarani on Saturday, August 17th, 2014. Photo/Jonah Onyango

Nairobi; Kenya: Yoshio Tamura was a renown head coach of the Kenyan Karate teams in much of the 1970s up to the 90s.

He came to the country as part of Japan's technical and cultural aid. He remembers how Karate caught on as a sport and how it was taught as a working tool for Kenya Prisons, Police, National Service and Military personnel.