Welcome to Official Finland KDS Homepage

24-02-2007

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The KDS is an organization committed to practicing and teaching Karate-do as taught by Master Mitsusuke Harada and the style is open to anyone with a genuine interest in learning karate.

The KDS™ is directly overseen by Master Mitsusuke Harada, who is, the Principal Instructor of the KDS™ Organization. The KDS™ was established in the U.K. in 1965 by Master Mitsusuke Harada. The Chrysanthemum logo and the KDS™ abbreviation are the officially recognized trademarks (TM) of Master Mitsusuke Harada's Organization, the KDS™.

No other martial arts group should use either of these two legal trademarks, especially in relation to Master Harada and his practice.
Only those affiliated to the KDS™ have technical links with Master Harada.
Others using the Shotokai name have no technical links with the KDS™.

Our head organization here in Finland, what we call Finland KDS or FKDS (Finland Karate-Do Shotokai), was formed mainly because of the necessity to get the technical knowledge and communication to equal level in all clubs.

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MASTER MITSUSUKE HARADA – A TEACHER OF ORTHODOX SHOTOKAN KARATE

"Mitsusuke Harada was born in 1928, and joined the famous Shotokan dojo in Tokyo in 1943, where he was taught by legendary masters Motonobu Hironishi, Wado Uemura and Yoshiaki Hayashi. Harada is also one of the few men still living who trained under Yoshitaka Funakoshi, a karateka of truly formidable reputation.

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