The Memorial Karate-Do Seminar and Exchange Demonstration 2014 for Soke Takayoshi Nagamine in Okinawa -

Dear WMKA members,

It has been a year and a half since the passing away of Soke Takayoshi Nagamine last year. No one or anything can fill his vacancy and we are still in mourning for his loss. But we have to move forward to admire his honor and legacy.

Though the Okinawa headquarters had been halted after passing away of Soke, we were able to restart with your support and cooperation. Unfortunately, we had postponed Soke’s original schedule of “ World Matsubayashi-Ryu karate-Do Seminar 2013 in Okinawa . However, we have decided to open “The Memorial Karate-Do Seminar and Exchange Demonstration 2014 for Soke Takayoshi Nagamine in Okinawa”.

The venues will be at the “Rensei Dojo” inside the Okinawa Prefectural Hall of Martial Arts where we held the Karate-Do Seminar during
“ The Ceremony of the 75^th Foundation Anniversary of World Matsubayashi-Ryu Karate-Do & the 13^th Memorial Karate-Do Demonstration for Grand Master Shoshin Nagamine” in November 2010.

Please refer to the tentative schedule below and contents of the events in this announcement.

We will post the final schedule and the contents of the events later, because we can only reserve the venues after December 1, 2013. However, it is decided to open the events during first week in November 2014 .

The Tentative schedule of the events are :

1. Title of the Event: “The Memorial Karate-Do Seminar and Exchange Demonstration 2014 for Soke Takayoshi Nagamine in Okinawa”.

2. Date and Contents of the Events : From October 31^st to November 2nd ( 3-Day Seminar)

Date (Week)	Time	Contents
October 31 (Fri)	10:00 to 16:00	Karate-Do Seminar
	17:00 to 19:00	Dojo Owners Meeting
November 1 (Sat)	10:00 to 16:00	Karate-Do Seminar
November 2 (Sun)	09:00 to 12:00	Dan Promotion Test
	14:00 to 17: 00	Exchange Demonstration
	18:00 to 21:00	Exchange Party

3. Venues : Okinawa Prefectural Hall of Martial Arts / Rensei Dojo 2^nd Floor

We sincerely expect that all WMKA members will be aware of the events and consider your schedule next year for coming to Okinawa in November 2014.

We give our best regards from Okinawa to everyone around the world wherever you live.

Sincerely Yours,

President Yoshitaka Taira
World Matsubayashi-Ryu karare-Do Association