is a Japanese Shotokan

Shotokan

is a style of karate, developed from various martial arts by Gichin Funakoshi and his son Gigo Funakoshi . Gichin was born in Okinawa and is widely credited with popularizing karate through a series of public demonstrations, and by promoting the development of university karate clubs, including...

 karateka and Chief Instructor of the Karatenomichi World Federation. He is famous for his performance of the Unsu

Unsu

Unsu , literally "cloud hands", is the most advanced kata found in the Shotokan, Shito-Ryu and IsshinShorinji Ryu karate styles and is generally taught to karateka at the 3rd to 4th Dan. It contains many intricate hand techniques, such as the ippon-nukite in the opening sequence...

 kata.

After graduating from Kokushikan University

Kokushikan University

is a private university in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan.Combined teams of the Graduate School of Engineering and the Department of Science and Engineering competed against 130 team and came in 11th place in the 27th Formula SAE in 2007...

, he became Kenshusei in the Japan Karate Association

Japan Karate Association

Japan Karate Association is one of the most influential Shotokan karate organizations in the world...

 and had a competitive career from 1974-84.

In April 2000 he established the Karatenomichi World Federation. The KWF is a Shotokan karate association that is dedicated to developing technical excellence. Yahara believes that the purpose of karate is to be able to destroy an opponent with one killing blow.