Dojo Owners’ Page

This following is the handout prepared by Soke Takayoshi Nagamine for use in member dojo.
Junbi Undo, Kihon Undo & Kiso Tanren: handout pdf may be found here.

New Annual Fees for WMKA Dojo Owners
October 1, 2013

The revised annual fees will be applied to the Dojo Owners who will renew their Licenses
this year and following years unless notified otherwise:

The main points are:

1.    We excluded the annual fees for all boys and girls including high school students.
2.    We have excluded the annual fees for adult non-black belt students.(White to brown belts).
3.    All black belt students,1^st dan and above, have to pay same amount of annual fees.
However, high school students who are black belt don’t need to pay the annual fees based on item #1 above.
4.    We unified all fees between WMKA and EMKA.
Though the fees are almost same, we had a little bit of a difference in some parts.
5.    We unified currency into Japanese Yen. Therefore, no dollars,Euros or other currencies are listed.

You can adapt the currency exchange rate in your country for Japanese Yen.

Total amounts collected in Yen can be rounded to the nearest dollar or other currency of the country of
origin and sent to the WMKA in the form of check or wire transfer as indicated in the
“ Mailing Address and Bank Account” information seen below.

Annual Fees for Dojo Owner and Students.

  **Currency: Japanese Yen

No.	Description	WMKA	EMKA	Remarks
1	Dojo Owners	10,000	10,000	Revised from $100
2	Boys and Girls	0	0	Revised from $25
3	Adult non-black belt	0	0	Revised from $25
4	1st to 10th Dan black belt	2,000	2,000	Revised from $25

Dan Promotion Test Standard Requirements.

Promotion Test Contents											Required Years	Test Fees	Dojo Owner	Okinawa HQ
	1st Dan	Fukyugata Ⅰ	Pinan Ⅰ	Pinan designated	Naihanchi Ⅰ	Ananku	Fukyugata Ⅰ Bunkai	Oral Test			1 year Since 1st Kyu	10,000	5,000	5,000
	2nd Dan	Fukyugata Ⅰ＆Ⅱ	Pinan Ⅱ	Naihanchi Ⅱ	Wankan	Fukyugata Ⅱ Bunkai	Yakusoku Kumite	Oral Test	Written Test		2 years since 1st dan	20,000	10,000	10,000
	3rd Dan	Fukyugata Ⅰ	Pinan Ⅲ	Naihanchi Ⅲ	Wanshu	Pinan Ⅰ Bunkai	Yakusoku Kumite	Oral Test	Written Test		3 years since 2nd dan	30,000	15,000	15,000
	4th Dan	Fukyugata Ⅰ	Pinan IV	Pinan designated		Gojushiho	Pinan II bunkai	Yakusoku Kumite	Written Test	Oral Test	4 years since 3rd dan	40,000	20,000	20,000
	5th Dan	Fukyugata Ⅰ	Pinan V	Pinan designated	Naihanchi designated	Rohai	Pinan Ⅲ Bunkai	Yakusoku Kumite	Written Test	Oral Test	5 years since 4th dan	50,000	25,000	25,000
	6th Dan	Fukyugata Ⅰ	Pinan designated	Passai	Yakusoku Kumite	Oral Test	Short Thesis				6 years since 5th dan	60,000	30,000	30,000
	7th Dan	Fukyugata Ⅰ	Option one of 〇 1. Wankan 2. Wanshu 3. Gojushiho	Chinto	Oral Test	Short Thesis					7 years since 6th dan	70,000	35,000	35,000
	8th Dan	Fukyugata Ⅰ	Kusanku	Oral Test	Short Thesis						8 years since 7th dan	80,000	40,000	40,000
	9th Dan	Kusanku	Oral Test	Short Thesis							9 years since 8th dan	90,000	45,000	45,000

    Note 1: Dan promotion test fees for 5^th dan and above will be discussed with president prior to the test.
    Note 2: Dojo owners and District Honbu dojos have to pay all test fees to Okinawa General Headquarters.

< Remarks > WMKA members have to be evaluated based on the table above and on the Remarks item #1 to #7 below; 

1. We will follow the Dan promotion test procedure article 6 in “WMKA  Agreement with Dojo Owner” . 
2. We can award the appellation Renshi who passed 6th dan test. But one has to win the appellation, it is not automatically attached to 6th dan. 
3. We can award the appellation Kyoshi who passed 7th & 8th dan. But one has to win the appellation, it is not automatically attached to 7th & 8th dan. 
4. We can award the appellation Hanshi who passed 9th dan & 10th dan. . But he has to win the appellation, it is not automatically attached to 9th & 10th dan.  The person should be 60-year or above.
5. The 5th dan and above have to be tested in Okinawa in principle.  But the WMKA president can evaluate 5th dan under special occasions overseas and in mainland Japan. 
6. Okinawa Headquarters’ testing committee can give a chance or promote the persons who are very excellent or under special situations. 
7. The Dojo Owners have to follow WMKA procedure and submit Documents required within “WMKA Request for Dan Certificates.

*The table is not new but was never posted on WMKA Website Secure page until now.

We have revised all necessary forms based on “New Annual Fees for WMKA & EMKA”

1.    WMKA Agreement with Dojo Owner  (Rev.1)
2.    WMKA Request for Dojo License Renewal and Acquisition  (Rev.1)
3.    WMKA Request for Dan Certificates  (Rev.1)

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PayPal account of  WMKA/Taira Kaicho is now available. It’s quite simple and reasonable. PayPal can be your new primary payment method.

Payment Methods: You have two payment methods as below;

1. PayPal (recommended)
PayPal Payment link and instructions (scan QR barcode or click on link below) .

https://paypal.me/WMKA1/

Use "Send" Option, then on payment screen, please include a note/message with following information included:
a) From whom (Dojo Owner's name)
b) What the payment is for (ex. Dan certificates, license renewal, etc.)

2. Japanese cash in Okinawa or mail. Also include:
a) From whom (Dojo Owner's name)
b) What the payment is for (ex. Dan certificates, license renewal, etc.)

Note: Payment methods #1 and #2 are best for overseas members.

Note: We can’t accept any private checks in Okinawa.
Please send all E-mails and application documents to the point of contact as below
Daichi SAKAMOTO WMKA overseas manager
Address: Miyagi 4-18-23, Urasoe-City, Okinawa 901-2126 Japan
(E-mail address):  okinawa.wmka@gmail.com

Below you will find forms having to do with membership: