[2] Tōru Arakawa began karate training at the Nihon University at the age of 18.

At the beginning of the 1960s he traveled to Europe and America together with Tatsuo Suzuki and Hajime Takashima to make karate in the western countries popular.

In addition, he trained numerous successful athletes in the 1980s, including Seiji Nishimura and Toshiaki Maeda.

[4] Until his death in June 2015, Arakawa taught in his Dōjō Shibuya and at international seminars in Japan and overseas.

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