Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Takashi Azuma

Japanese full-contact karate master, the founder of Kudo1949 to 2021

Wikidata names Mas Oyama as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and VIAF.

Takashi Azuma, pictured

How to read the marksstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlex

Teachers and mentors1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

Education and career2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.