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'''Hiroaki Toyama ''' was is one of the highest-ranking instructors of Yoshukai Karate in the United States. An 8th-degree black belt, he also co-directed directs the annual Yoshukai Karate Winter Workout on Pensacola Beach, along with the Summer Camp in Lake Eufala, Alabama, and from the early 1990s to 2015 was is an instructor at the Langley Avenue YMCA.
Toyama started his martial arts training in the 1960s in Japan where he achieved the shodan, or first degree black belt, in both Kendo and Judo. In 1975, he relocated to Birmingham, Alabama, then to Brewton where he met his future wife, Donna, and trained in Santa Rosa County.
