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The Kokusai Okinawa Kobujutsu Renmei (KOKR) is the only official sanctioning organisation for the art of Aragaki-Ryu Okinawa kobujutsu .
The KOKR was founded in 2008 by Shōda Hideo (1941—), the 3rd Sōke of Aragaki-Ryū, as a result of a request by Leonard J. Pellman Shihan to formally affiliate the Nippon Budō Seishin-Kan with Aragaki-Ryū. Prior to that request, no formal organisation had existed to promote Aragaki-Ryū beyond its one small dōjō in Nagoya, Japan. In 2009, Shōda Sōke appointed Pellman Shihan as Hokubei Buchō (North American Branch Director) of the KOKR and assigned him the responsibility of promoting Aragaki-Ryū throughout No
Aragaki-Ryū is an eclectic style of Okinawa kobujutsu created by Higa Yasuhiro (1908—1984) shortly after World War II. Although Ryūkyū kobudō is a more popular term for the art as it is taught in most other styles, Higa Shihan insisted that it was not the correct term for the art he taught. "I was born in Okinawa; not Ryūkyū, " he once explained, "The Kingdom of Ryūkyū ceased to exist before I was born. It was conquered by Japan in 1609 and became Okinawa- ken in 1879. It has been Okinawa- ken ever sinc
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