• 2010 Kyoto 8-dan Grading Results (Final)

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    Published on 2nd May 2010 01:36 AM      Number of Views: 3102  
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    The final results from the 2010 Kyoto 8-dan grading on the 1st and 2nd of May are out. On the first day, from 751 participants, 9 passed (1.2% pass rate). The second day saw 12 from 779 pass (1.5% pass rate). The successful challengers were:

    Prefecture Name Age
    Day 1
    Osaka Yoshida Kazuhide 46
    Aichi Kuranari Kenji 47
    Mie Tsumehashi Tomohisa 48
    Miyazaki Nagatomo Yasunori 50
    America Kato Shozo 54
    Tokyo Fujisaki O. 57
    Tokyo Ozawa Hiroshi 60
    Chiba Yanagawa Miyuki 67
    Osaka Ikeda M. 68
    Day 2
    Tokushima Hirano Seiji 46
    Ibaragi Motona Kazuhiko 46
    Tokyo Kuniyoshi Tomonari 48
    Tottori Abe Masami 48
    Fukuoka Nakayama Kouji 50
    Chiba Kakihara Naoto 54
    Aichi Horiyama Kenji 56
    Shizuoka Kawabe Shouji 59
    Miyagi Sone Takaetsu 61
    Saitama Kono Akihiro 66
    Shizuoka Takagi Ryo 68
    Kanagawa Kouno Hiroshi 69
    *There may be some misreadings of the kanji as we haven't been able to confirm the readings.

    Very exciting to see our own contributor Ozawa sensei pass, and New York's Kato sensei come through in a very tough environment.
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