Category: Magazine Articles

Master Kazumi Tabata in Karate Illustrated January 1978: Monster Tabata

Enjoy this article from the January 1978 issue of Karate Illustrated, “Monster Tabata,” by George Barbaro and Tom Shea. Written only a little more than ten years after Sensei Tabata went abroad from Japan. BTW, that character on the cover was Tabata Sensei’s good friend, Master Tadashi Yamashita. NAKF...

Master Kazumi Tabata in Shotokan Karate Magazine

Master Kazumi Tabata was the cover subject of the October 2006 issue of the excellent Shotokan Karate Magazine. Here is the cover and interview. SKM is highly recommended and it was a pleasure to see Sensei featured. A lasting tribute [By the way, NAKF continues to offer karate grading...