{"id":19151,"date":"2009-04-20T11:46:28","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T02:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kyokushinkaikan-demo-org.check-xserver.jp\/en\/2009\/04\/20\/the_40th_young_lion_uchideshientrance_ceremony\/"},"modified":"2009-04-20T11:46:28","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T02:46:28","slug":"the_40th_young_lion_uchideshientrance_ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www-test.kyokushinkaikan.org\/en\/news\/19151\/","title":{"rendered":"The 40th Young Lion &#8216;Uchideshi&#8217; entrance ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><font>April 15<sup>th<\/sup>, 2009&nbsp;<br \/><\/font><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><font>Ikebukuro, Tokyo<br \/><\/font><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><font><br \/>On April 15<sup>th<\/sup>, 2009, Koichi Tada an 18 year-old from Miyazaki Prefecture made his first step into Honbu Dojo as the 40th term of &#8216;Uchideshi&#8217;, i.e. apprentice student. <\/font><\/span><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><span lang=\"EN-US\"><font>In the solemn<\/font> <font>atmosphere of So-Honbu Dojo, <span class=\"caps\">IKO<\/span><\/font> <font>President Kancho Shokei<\/font><font> Matsui gave&nbsp;a<\/font> <font>speech to Tada. &#8216;Three years of Uchideshi <\/font><font>life may seem a very long time but it can <\/font><font>be just<font> <\/font><\/font><font>a<\/font> <font>short period in term of your life.&#8217; Kancho added <\/font><font>&#8216;You must pursue a true meaning of <\/font><font>strength and wisdom of life in general <\/font><font>through the development of Kyokushin Karate skills <\/font><font>and physical toughness. <\/font><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><font>Koichi has set his goal to be strong after 1,000 days of Uchideshi training and his dream is to become a Kyokushin World Champion like Shihan Hitoshi Kiyama also a native of Kyushu.<\/font><\/span><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<table width=\"323\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody><\/p>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"317\"><span><font><\/font><\/span><\/td>\n<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" height=\"200\" alt=\"2-thumb-300x200-137.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kyokushinkaikan.org\/en\/news\/2009\/04\/28\/2-thumb-300x200-137.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/span><br \/><\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><br \/><\/span><\/td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" height=\"200\" alt=\"3-thumb-300x200-139.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kyokushinkaikan.org\/en\/news\/2009\/04\/28\/3-thumb-300x200-139.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" height=\"200\" alt=\"4-thumb-300x200-141.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kyokushinkaikan.org\/en\/news\/2009\/04\/28\/4-thumb-300x200-141.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" height=\"299\" alt=\"6-thumb-300x449-146-thumb-200x299-147.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kyokushinkaikan.org\/en\/news\/2009\/04\/28\/6-thumb-300x449-146-thumb-200x299-147.jpg\" width=\"199\" \/><\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 15th, 2009&nbsp;Ikebukuro, TokyoOn April 15th, 2009, Koichi Tada an 18 year-old from Miyazaki Prefecture [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-test.kyokushinkaikan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-test.kyokushinkaikan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-test.kyokushinkaikan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-test.kyokushinkaikan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-test.kyokushinkaikan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www-test.kyokushinkaikan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-test.kyokushinkaikan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-test.kyokushinkaikan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-test.kyokushinkaikan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}