Welcome to JKA Toulouse

JKA Toulouse is the association representing the Japan Karate Association in our area.

The Japan Karate Association is the official organization to teach Shotokan Karate in Japan. Founded in 1949 by Sensei Nakayama and Sensei Masatochi Hidetoshi Nishiyama, both direct students of the founder of Shotokan style, Gishin Funakoshi, the JKA was to train experts among students of Japanese universities with the aim to disseminate in Shotokan Karate the world. Today, the JKA is intended to promote the benefits and values ??related to the practice of karate. JKA karate is the style at the origin of the forms of Shotokan Karate practiced in the world today.