I took your advice and read the letter of expulsion first. I then did some research on Fumio Demura trying to discover for why he IS so "venerated." ...
I took your advice and read the letter of expulsion first. I then did some research on Fumio Demura trying to discover for why he IS so “venerated.” It’s all so clear to me now. You’re right also that Fumio Demura has been on numerous covers of Black Belt magazine. I checked for myself! He has apparently been on the cover numerous times on dozens of other martial arts magazines. In addition to being a Kumite Champion, a celebrated martial arts author Fumio Demura is an inductee of every martial arts HALL of FAME I could find. He has reportedly been teaching Karate on a top level for over 40 years and seems to have a very large and happy worldwide organization. (What have you got against California and Western Canada anyway?)
Concerning the “Expulsion” itself, reading the expulsion document raises questions about it. Companies in business have disputes over business names all the time without anyone being a bad guy. So that isn’t important, or there would have been a lawsuit over it. The number one complaint in the expulsion was something to the effect of “Fumio Demura failing to communicate with Itosukai home office for twenty years.” If that is true, this expulsion is like having “Locked the barn door after the horse is gone” (and died of old age). Losing Fumio Demura looks to me like Itosukai’s loss and the expulsion sounds to me like “sour grapes” especially after so many years. If Fumio Demura has been out of contact as it says, again I have to question the real purpose of this document. Certainly Demura knew he was gone all that time, so must Itosukai have. (HELLO, Get a Clue!) So, if everyone involved already knew, all this time, then the only purpose of the “Expulsion” is a thinly disguised attempt to discredit.
Fumio Demura is so universally “venerated” I’m sure you must be right in that his worldwide acceptance is not based at all on magazine covers!
You can find out more about Fumio Demura at www.genbu-kai.com
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