Yosuke Yamashita
Japanese Goju-ryu master holding the 10th dan, who came to Spain in 1969, founded a dojo in Madrid and trained Olympic champion Sandra Sánchez.
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According to an obituary from the World Karate Federation (WKF), Yosuke Yamashita was born in 1942 in Tokyo. He died on 2 February 2022. He began martial arts at the age of fourteen.
He came to Spain in 1969 and founded a dojo in Madrid. He was the leading figure of Goju-ryu in Spain and held the 10th dan.
His students included Antonio Moreno, later president of the Spanish Karate Federation, and Sandra Sánchez, Olympic karate champion. Outside the tatami, he served as president of the Association of the Japanese Community in Spain. In 2007 he received a Diploma from Japan for his merits in deepening mutual understanding between Spain and Japan.
We have not been able to verify anything in the sources about his own teachers and his path to Goju-ryu.