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Shigeru Oyama was born on 7 July, 1936 in Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese karateka (1936-2016). Discover Shigeru Oyama's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?
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Shigeru Oyama Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Shigeru Oyama worth at the age of 79 years old? Shigeru Oyama’s income source is mostly from being a successful karateka. He is from Japan. We have estimated Shigeru Oyama's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Shigeru Oyama (大山 茂) was a karate practitioner and instructor who operated a dojo in New York for half a century.
Shigeru Oyama was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1936.
He first saw Mas Oyama after World War II when he was nine or ten years old.
He described the young karateka as being very muscular with ‘very scary and strong’ eyes.
A friend of his father, the young Mas Oyama would come to his father's house to do his karate workout, and he frequently watched him train in the yard.
Although they shared the same surname, the Oyamas were not related, but in fact young Mas Oyama changed his Korean birth name, Choi Young-Eui, because the Oyama family let him stay with them from time to time.
S. Oyama started practicing karate at the age of twelve under Mas Oyama at his dojo that was referred to as Oyama Dojo and his contact style Oyama Karate.
He received his black belt when he was seventeen.
A typical karate class 'was usually four hours long with the last two hours being fighting.' He was one of the senior Kyokushin karateka who sparred with Mas Oyama in his younger days, and he saw the latter's first bout with a bull in Japan.
You don’t beat the 65th man with your body.
You beat him with your spirit.’
He continued to train at what was now the Kyokushin Headquarters in Tokyo and received his 4th-degree black belt before embarking on his journey to spread Kyokushin karate in the United States.
Richard Bernard, a representative for Kyokushin in New York, requested a Japanese instructor, and Mas Oyama chose S. Oyama.
Over the years, S. Oyama greatly contributed to establishing Kyokushin as one of the preeminent karate styles practiced across the globe.
He was hand-picked by Mas Oyama, karate master and founder of Kyokushin karate, to spread his contact style of karate in the United States and was sent to New York City to teach in 1966.
S. Oyama is acknowledged as one of the first Kyokushin stylists to successfully complete the 100-man kumite.
S. Oyama would go on to consummate the 100-man kumite on Sept. 17, 1966.
He reminisced: ‘One-hundred kumite is the hardest thing I ever did in my life.
It is probably the hardest thing anyone can do in the karate world.
He consolidated the U.S. Kyokushin Karate Organization in the late 1970s and became its chairman.
As the oldest remaining disciple of 'Kancho' Mas Oyama, founder and grandmaster of Kyokushin, S. Oyama was his ‘best student’ and ranked only below him in the entire Kyokushin hierarchy.
Of the many Japanese Kyokushin karateka who sought training under S. Oyama, Joko Ninomiya chose to stay in America to also teach, and he became branch chief for Kyokushin in Denver, CO in 1976.
Many tournament champions of Kyokushin, including world champions such as Makoto Nakamura (World Full Contact Karate Open Championship winner in 1979 and 1983) and Shokei Matsui (winner in 1987) were sent to S. Oyama for training before their subsequent tournament competition.
By this time, he was widely acknowledged as Saiko Shihan (supreme master) or Sekai Saiko Shihan (world's supreme master) out of Kyokushin's many qualified instructors.
He taught Kyokushin karate for many years before forming his own organization World Oyama Karate in 1985.
Even after parting ways with Mas Oyama's Kyokushin organization, he continued to maintain great respect for the man, calling him his 'father, karate master, and mentor who showed him the path of life.' After dedicating five decades to teach and popularize a more modernized, practical system of karate to students around the world, Shigeru Oyama died on February 14, 2016.
His organization World Oyama Karate is currently headed by his younger brother, Yasuhiko Oyama, who operates out of Birmingham, Alabama.