Inducted into the A.M.A.H.O.F.(Inc) for 2009
Lifetime Achievement Award – Karate – Japan
Inducted into the W.K.U.H.O.F. for 2009
Lifetime Achievement Award – Karate – Japan
Yoshitoshi Sato is 75 years of age, Kancho 10th Dan Japanese Okinawa Karete-do. He currently lives in Onojo City in Japan.
Kancho Sato is a remarkable martial artist who trains and teaches Karate-do and Bojitsu every day and only having one Tuesday in each month off. He has sixteen dojo’s in Fukuoka, Japan, under his control. He is a living legend and one of the last 10th Dan Grand Masters left in Japan. His character is above reproach, a family man who is respected by the Japan and Fukuoka Governments.
- 1955 Started in Kagoshima in Shorin Ryu
- 1957 Kagoshima Rensinkan Competition
- 1960 – 1970 Karate coach for Kagoshima Prison
- 1961 – 1965 All Japan Karate Championship Fighting Spirit
- 1961 – 1969 Silver medal winner at All Japan Karate Championships
- 1962 Competition of the second All Japan Karate-do
- 1970 Karate Coach for the Kagoshima Kokusai
- 1975 Keizai University
- 1976 – 1980 Karate coach for the Fukuoka Prison
- 1981 – 11995 Karate coach for Fukuoka Rensinkan
- 1998 Competition of the 20, All Okinawa Karate-do Renmei Bo-kata
- 1996 President of All Japan Syorinryu SeishinKan
- 2007 Karate-do Renmei
- 2008 President of Kokusai Okinawa Shorininji Ryu Seisinkan Karate-do Renmei