Mas Oyama Death

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In1945 after the war ended, Oyama left the aviation school. He finally found a place to live in Tokyo. This is where he met his future wife Chiyako (大山 置弥子) whose mother ran a dormitory for university students.

Wanting the best in instruction, he contacted the Shotokan dojo (Karate school) operated by Gigō Funakoshi, the third son of karate master and Shotokan founder Gichin Funakoshi.[11] He became a student, and began his lifelong career in karate. To stay focused he remained isolated and trained in solitude.[10]

At sometime between 1946 and 1950, Mas Oyama trained at Kanbukan, a dojo founded by high ranking students of Kanken Toyama known for its large degree of Zainichi Korean membership. Nei-chu So was also an active trainee at Kanbukan and likely taught Goju-Ryu to Oyama there. In Kanbukan, Karate was practised with Bōgu/protective gear (Bogutsuki Karate), which allowed for delivering strikes with full force, and may have influenced Oyama's full contact fighting mentality. However, sources say that Oyama had little interest in Bogutsuki Karate as a sport.[2][3][12] Oyama did consider using protective equipment at some point though.[13]

During this time he also went around Tokyo getting in fights with the U.S. Military Police. He later reminisced those times in a television interview, "Itsumitemo Haran Banjyo" (Nihon Television), "I lost many friends during the war- the very morning of their departure as Kamikaze pilots, we had breakfast together and in the evening their seats were empty. After the war ended, I was angry- so I fought as many U.S. military as I could, until my portrait was all over the police station." Oyama retreated to a lone mountain for solace to train his mind and body. He set out to spend three years on Mt. Minobu in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. Oyama built a shack on the side of the mountain. One of his students named Yashiro accompanied him, but after the rigors of this isolated training, with no modern conveniences, the student snuck away one night, and left Oyama alone. With only monthly visits from a friend in the town of Tateyama in Chiba Prefecture, the loneliness and harsh training became grueling. Oyama remained on the mountain for fourteen months, and returned to Tokyo a much stronger and fiercer karateka.[10]

Oyama greatly credited his reading of The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi (a famous Japanese swordsman) for changing his life completely. He recounts this book as being his only reading material during his mountain training years.

He was forced to leave his mountain retreat after his sponsor had stopped supporting him. Months later, after he had won the Karate Section of Japanese National Martial Arts Championships, he was distraught that he had not reached his original goal to train in the mountains for three years, so he went into solitude again, this time on Mt. Kiyosumi in Chiba Prefecture, where he trained for 18 months.

In 1961, at the All-Japan Student Open Karate Championship, one of Oyama's students, Tadashi Nakamura, at 19 years old (1961) made his first tournament appearance, where he was placed first. Nakamura later became Mas Oyama's Chief Instructor as referenced in Mas Oyama's book, "This is Karate." In 1969, Oyama staged the first All-Japan Full Contact Karate Open Championships which took Japan by storm and Terutomo Yamazaki became the first champion, which have been held every year since. In 1975, the first World Full Contact Karate Open Championships were held in Tokyo. World championships have been held at four-yearly intervals since. After formally establishing Kyokushin-kai, Oyama directed the organization through a period of expansion. Oyama and his staff of hand-picked instructors displayed great ability in marketing the style and gaining new members.[18] Oyama would choose an instructor to open a dojo in another town or city in Japan, whereupon the instructor would move to that town, and, typically demonstrate his karate skills in public places, such as at the civic gymnasium, the local police gym (where many judo students would practice), a local park, or conduct martial arts demonstrations at local festivals or school events. In this way, the instructor would soon gain a few students for his new dojo. After that, word of mouth would spread through the local area until the dojo had a dedicated core of students. Oyama also sent instructors to other countries such as the United States, Netherlands, England, Australia and Brazil to spread Kyokushin in the same way. Oyama also promoted Kyokushin by holding The All-Japan Full Contact Karate Open Championships every year and World Full Contact Karate Open Championships once every four years in which anyone could enter from any style.

He was also known for fighting bulls bare-handed. He battled 52 bulls over the course of his lifetime, supposedly cutting off the horns of several and killing three instantly with one strike, earning him the nickname of "Godhand".[20]

In 1946, Oyama married a Japanese woman, Oyako Chiyako (1926-2006) and had three children with her. In the late 1960s, Oyama and Chiyako were having marital problems and decided to separate, and Chiyako, who did not want her husband to start seeing other women, arranged for a Korean woman and family friend named Sun-ho Hong to become Oyama's companion for some time. With Hong, Oyama had three more children and he would remain romantically involved with both Hong and Chiyako until the end of his life.

Oyama built his Tokyo-based International Karate Organization, Kyokushinkaikan, into one of the world's foremost martial arts associations, with branches in more than 100 countries boasting over 12 million registered members. In Japan, books were written by and about him, feature-length films splashed his colourful life across the big screen, and manga recounted his many adventures.

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Lady DeathstrikeGalleryNameYuriko Oyama[1]Current AliasLady DeathstrikeAliasesAna Corts, Deathstrike, Lady Dee,[2] Strikes[3]Affiliation and RelationshipsAffiliation Atelier; Formerly Weapon X-Force, Sisterhood of Mutants, Descendants, Oyama Heavy Industries, Reavers, Thunderbolts, Wolverines, ally of the PurifiersRelativesParents:

Kenji Oyama (father, deceased)

Siblings:

Kazuo Oyama (brother);[4]

Unnamed brother (deceased)

Yuriko Oyama is a cyborg with a self-repairing machine body and deadly Adamantium claws, being better known as the samurai warrior Lady Deathstrike.[8] She is the daughter of Lord Dark Wind, an insane and abusive Japanese kingpin who invented a process to coat bones with the indestructible metal Adamantium.[1] After putting an end to her father,[9] Oyama became devoted to carry on his legacy by becoming obsessed with the mutant Wolverine, who had been unrightfully enhanced with Adamantium and disgraced Oyama's honor.[10] To be as lethal as Wolverine, Oyama sacrificed her humanity and made a deal with the exquisite witch Spiral in order to be transformed into Lady Deathstrike.[8]

Deathstrike's hate for Wolverine has led her to forge alliance with despicable elements, especially Donald Pierce and his Reavers.[11] She is also closely associated with the mutant-hating militant, Reverend William Stryker.[12] Her activities usually lead her to clash with the mutant group which Wolverine is associated with, the X-Men.[13][14][15]

More recently, Lady Deathstrike became a target of a rebranded Weapon X Project, which was particularly interested in seizing control of augmented subjects to serve as living weapons.[16] After being rescued by a band of other victims,[17] she joined them in a team who claimed the name Weapon X for themselves.[18] Eventually, the group disbanded after their leader Sabretooth was gone during one last adventure.[19]

Yuriko Oyama (小山 ゆり子) is the daughter of Kenji Oyama, a former Japanese kamikaze pilot during World War II, whose face was horribly scarred in a failed suicide attack on an American battleship.[20] Considering his survival a disgrace, Oyama dedicated his life to atone for his failure. After setting up home on a private island, getting married and fathering one daughter named Yuriko and two sons, he became the cruel Lord Dark Wind. In a perverse way, Lord Dark Wind scarred his children's faces in the very same way he had his face disfigured.[1] He also had his children privately tutored by Marcy Stryker, wife of an American soldier named William Stryker. For that reason, the Strykers were acquainted with Yuriko since she was born.[21] In his extremist and insane activities, Lord Dark Wind built a criminal cult empire on his island, employing assassins as followers who he forced to adopt feudal traditions. He had his sons killed in an attempt to assassinate the Japanese prime minister. Concurrently, Yuriko fell in love with one of her father's assassins, a warrior named Kira. As Kira blindly followed Dark Wind's violent ideology, Yuriko grew to despise her father.[1]

Moreover, Lord Dark Wind also developed a means for bonding the virtually indestructible metal Adamantium to human bone, a procedure he hoped to use in creating an army of super-soldiers for Japan. However, his notes were mysteriously stolen, demanding him years to recreate the process. Eventually, he contacted the Kingpin, wishing to recruit the Kingpin's then-crippled assassin Bullseye to his private army by healing him with Adamantium.[22] In Japan, Dark Wind replaced some of Bullseye's broken bones with Adamantium implants, hoping that in return Bullseye would assassinate Japan's minister of trade for him. Arriving in Japan in order to capture Bullseye, the blind costumed crime-fighter Daredevil encountered Yuriko in one of her father's ships.[20] Seeking vengeance on her father, for scarring her face, for the deaths of her brothers and for putting Kira in danger, Yuriko guided Daredevil to her father's private island. During the ordeal, Yuriko found in Daredevil a man who was not disgusted by her appearance.[1] After the fight, Bullseye escaped, while Yuriko herself slew Lord Dark Wind as he was about to murder Daredevil. Freed for her diabolical father, Yuriko found herself unable to mourn his death by wishing to enjoy happiness with her lover Kira.[9]

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