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Hatsuo Royama was born on 31 March, 1948 in Gyōda, Saitama (Born in 🇯🇵), is a Zainichi Korean karateka (born 1948). Discover Hatsuo Royama'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 75 years old?

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Age 75 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 31 March, 1948
Birthday 31 March
Birthplace Gyōda, Saitama (Born in 🇯🇵)
Nationality North Korea

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1923

Hatsuo Royama (盧山 初雄) also known by his Korean name of Noh Cho Woong (Hangul: 노초웅; Hanja: 盧初雄) is a master of Kyokushin Karate and was current Kancho (Director) of the Kyokushin-kan International Organization Honbu, one faction of the International Karate Organization (IKO) founded by Mas Oyama (1923–1994) until April 2022.

Hatsuo Royama was born in Yago, Gyoda City of the Saitama Prefecture.

1963

During the fall of his first year of high school in 1963, Royama was introduced to Oyama Karate Dojo, which would be renovated into the Kyokushin Shogakukai Foundation, under umbrella of Kyokushin-kaikan, in April 1964.

1967

In 1967, after the dojo at Kyokushin headquarters was opened, Royama was appointed as one of the headquarters instructors.

However, Royama would be banned from the organization due to an incident involving a physical confrontation with Jan Kallenbach, in which Royama was beaten, and left the Kyokushin Kaikan for a while.

After that, he began kickboxing under the ring name Arashi Goro, and received training from Kenichi Sawai - practitioner of Taikiken (Yiquan), who had a working relationship with Mas Oyama.

He was later reintroduced to Karate when he began to study under Hideo Nakamura.

During this time, he developed a good friendship with Nariharu Kuramoto.

1973

In 1973, Royama's ban from Kyokushin was lifted, which allowed him to rejoin the organization.

He then participated in the 5th Open Tournament All Japan Karatedo Championships for the first time after returning.

After defeating Jōkō Ninomiya and Katsuaki Satō, Royama advance to the finals, where his opponent was Terutomo Yamazaki.

Royama achieved victory over Yamazaki with 4 to 1 decision.

1974

In the 6th All Japan Championship in 1974, he lost to Takashi Azuma in the semi-finals and finished 3rd overall.

Regardless of the defeat, Royama was elected as the representative of the 1st Open Tournament World Open Karate Championship the following year.

Royama remained in Japan while his teammates from the national karate team participated in the US expedition.

Royama continued to practice in preparation for the 1st World Championship.

1975

In the 1st World Open Karate Championships in 1975, he fought against Charles Martin (currently teacher of Tadashi Nakamura's Seido), one of the American national team's players.

In the quarterfinals, Royama defeated Charles in the first extension.

In the final match, Royama fought against Katsuaki Satō.

The battle was fierce and involved the extension again, but this time, Royama lost by 3-2 decision.

1979

Royama participated in the 2nd World Championship in 1979, but withdrew in the 2nd round.

1994

In April 1994, after the death of Mas Oyama, a new system was established in which Shokei Matsui became the director and Royama became the chief advisor and chief instructor.

In order to fulfill Oyama's will, Royama strongly wishes for the revival of the foundation of Kyokushin, which had laid dormant due to the tradition of the original Kyokushin Karate going against the spread and development of karate.

Royama tried to urge Matsui many times, but was not heard, as Matsui gradually commercialized the organization against Royama's will.

Royama eventually grew fed up with Matsui's direction and left Matsui's Kyokushin organization with Hiroto Okazaki and others.

2002

In December 2002, Royama established the Kyokushin-kan International Honbu, which was to follow Kyokushin's original spirit which Oyama's envisioned, and became the organization's first director.

After that, Royama revived the Kyokushin Shogakukai Foundation, which was a public interest incorporated foundation, for the purpose of popularizing and developing Kyokushin Karate.

2004

In April 2004, the Kyokushin Shogakukai Foundation awarded him the 9th dan of the Kyokushin.

2014

With the reform of the new public interest incorporated foundation under the jurisdiction of the Cabinet Office, which came into effect on April 10, 2014, from December 2008, the Kyokushin Shogakukai Foundation has been registered as a general incorporated foundation.

2016

At the Mas Oyama's 23rd memorial service, held on April 23, 2016, at Gokokuji Temple, Royama, who attended, stated his greatest desire is to "pass on the martial arts spirit learned from the [Mas Oyama] to future generations."

2017

On January 20, 2017, it was announced on the official website that the Kyokushinkan-related trademark was announced as a public property by the Kanto Shinetsu National Taxation Bureau.

On February 7, the same year, with the withdrawal of the deputy director and several branch managers, Royama declared that he would work under the new system with the mission of continuing the will of President Oyama.

In 2022, Hatsuo Royama got into a dispute with influencer Royama777, also simply known as Rose.

Her growing success in social medias such as Instagram and Youtube conflicted with existing algorithms that were previously linked to Hatsuo Royama.

As a consequence, Royama777's engagement and number of followers started to decline.

A dispute was then opened between both in which Royama777 requested Hatsuo Royama to change his name in order to allow the algorithms to work on her favor.

Hatsuo ignored Royama777's requests after several contact attempts.

As a result, by 2023, Royama777 voluntarily shut down her accounts and retired permanently from social media.

During his active career, he used Gedan mawashi geri, crescent kicks and fist thrusts as his main weapons.

His use of low roundhouse kicks earned him the nickname "Low Kick Royama"