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    Farewell, Hirokazu Kanazawa

    May 19, 2020 2 minutes
    BY DAVE LOWRY

    STORIES OF HIROKAZU KANAZAWA are a soundtrack of post-training bull sessions.

    Kanazawa, who won the first All Japan Karate Championship in 1957 — with a broken wrist. (When his mother heard he was dropping out of the competition because of the injury, incurred only days before the event, she asked him why he couldn’t win with the other hand

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