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  • Black Belt Magazine

    From the Archives

    Sep 19, 2018 2 minutes

    Vol. 17, No. 8, $1.50

    • Talk about bad luck! His mother was born in Hiroshima, his father in Nagasaki. When the atom bombs fell, 14-year-old Tsutomu Ohshima, a direct student of shotokan founder Gichin Funakoshi and the martial artist on the cover of this issue, was living between those two cities.

    • Was Ohshima, who’s now based

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