Sensei Hiroshi Shirai

Sensei Hiroshi Shirai
Sensei Shirai was born on 31st July 1937 in Nagasaki, Japan and started Karate in 1956 in Komazawa University.
His instructors there were Sensei(s) Nishiyama & Tsujima. He received his Shodan in 1957.
He then attended the JKA Instructors's course from 1960 to 1962 where Sensei(s) Nakayama, Nishiyama, Kase & Sugiura where his instructors. During this course Sensei Kase had a great influence on him.
He won the Japan Championships in 1962.

Sensei Shirai became a 9th Dan in 1999. He is the head of the World Shotokan Institute (WSI). Based in Italy since 1965, he directs courses in various countries regularly. He has developed a new standard of Karate-Do particularly in bunkai for Shotokan kata.