Dai Sensei

The following are true stories of the legendary Meitoku Yagi (Dai Sensei). The stories are based on his history found in a privately translated manuscript Dai Sensei’s autobiography, “The Life Drama of the Man – Meitoku”.

Dai Sensei and the Kume Jima Massacre

...sailing the waters were dangerous for his family during wartime. His superior officer responded that leaving Okinawa might spare his life. History would prove that this conversation would become a grimacing foreshadow of what was to come on Okinawa.rn

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The Making of a True Grit Master

By his last and fifth year of middle school, in 1932 this future master already started his own peer Karate group made up of second year students from several middle schools all over the Naha region.rn

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The Wild Wild West of Naha

The year of 1912 marked the end of the Meiji era of Japan and the beginning Taisho. It was also during this time that Japan embarked on an expansion through military conquests.rn

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