Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Akira Masuda

Japanese full-contact karate master, the founder of IBMA Kyokushin Kaikanborn 1962

Wikidata names Mas Oyama and Noriyasu Hamai as teachers. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and VIAF.

Akira Masuda, pictured

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Teachers and mentors2

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