Date of Birth : October 4th 1924
Current Rank 10th Dan JKA/WF HQ JAPAN
Born in Aichi prefecture. Oct. 4th 1924 After fininshing School he
entered the Koa Junior College now renamed the Asia University in . Apr.
1942 and joined the Karate club under the tutelage of Yosiaki Hayashi
Sensei of the Shotokan In 1943 he became a student of Shotokan training
under Gichin Funakoshi Sensei and his second son Yoshitaka Funakoshi
Sensei. He received the 1st Dan in the month of March, 1944. After
graduating from Koa Junior College in Sept. 1944 he entered Tuchiura
Navy Flying Corps as a Preliminary Student in the 15th Naval Flying
Corps in the month of October He was freed from service in the month of
August . 1945 and in November the next year, he got a job at the Nihon
Keizai vocational school. Eager to continue his training in Karate-do .
he studied Karate from 1949 through 1954 under Mr. Masatoshi Nakayama,
an alumnus of Takushoku University., Mr.Isao Kohata and Mr. Shuntaro
Ito, alumni of Keio University.
In June 1951 he received the 2nd Dan and the 3rd Dan in Nov. 1953 In the
year 1955 he became a Director of Japan Karate Association and was
given the responsibility of managing the instructors. The heavy work
schedule of the JKA led to his retirement from Nihon Keizai Junior
College.in December .1955. The next year in April 1956, he entered the
Japan Karate Association Guidance Department and until 1971, coached at
various dojos including the headquarters Dojo of the JKA. the Kogakuin
University Karate club, the Nihon University .Agriculture and Veterinary
Department Karate club, the Taisho University Karate club, the Tokyo
Keizai University Karate club, the Hitotubashi University .
Karate club, the Chuo Tetsudou Karate club etc. In November . 1957 he
received 4th Dan and on the 10th of April 1958, he was appointed the
Director of the Corporation. Japan Karate Association with the
responsibilty of making rules of matches and referee. May 14th 1958, he
received a qualification of the degree of Physical .Education.
instructor of Karatedo from the Ministry of Education. From 1959 through
1963 he wa occupied as a part-time Physical .Education. Karate
instructor and lectured at General Education Dept. Of Asia Univ. In the
meanwhile in March 1961 he meritted the 5th Dan.
From Dec. 1961 he was involved in editing a text book titled "Karate-do
no Kihon", or "Basics of Karate-do". This text book points out the
common errors of the JKA members. In the month of April. 1963, he
received 6th Dan and from the very next month was involved in making 8mm
film for overseas.and was given in charge of 2 videos of 6 volumes of
the English edition. He resigned as the Director of the JKA on Jul. 10th
1963 and from April 1964 took to full-time Physical .Education. Karate
instructor and was promoted as assistant professor at General Education
Dept. of Asia Univ. In Apr. 1968 he received 7th Dan and was Engaged in
writing a textbook from Apr. 1969.
Got invitation of China Japan Friendship Karatedo Cup Visited Taipei,
Taichu, Tainan and Takao from Mar. 26th to Apr. 7th, 1970 for this
purpose From August 1970 he was engaged in making videos of Karate Kata
for overseas.
He served as the president of Koganei city Karatedo Federation and
Koganei P.E.. Association officer From 1973 to 1978. In the month of
April in the year 1975 he became the head of the Japan Martial Arts
Society and in August visited visited Los Angeles and Hawaii to attend
the meeting of IAKF and the 7th Cup. From December of the same year
Master Sugiura started publishing a column in the magazine "Monthly
Karatedo".
In April 1976 he was promoted to professor of General Education Dept. of
Asia University and on June 21st of the same year he received the 8th
Dan. of the JKA which entitled him to the board of the Technical
Committee. Later in the year in July.he visited the branches in Jakarta,
Surabaya and Yogyakarta. on the way to Indonesia. with Asia Univ.
Alumni Association After this vist in the same year from Sep.15th to
Oct.5th, he travelled to the U.S.A visiting varous universities in the
US to study instruction of Karate. like the US.UCR;PIERCE
College;UCLA;Arisona State Univ;Scottsdale Community College;J・KA of
Colorado;Temple Univ.College of PE; NewYork State University.
May.1977 his thesis"A system of Karate-do" was accepted by Asia
University In April 1983 he was retained as teaching staff for Karate-do
as Physical .Education. In the month of March 1989 he authored the
Guidelines for Karate-do..The next year in March 1990, Sugiura Sensei
retired from Professorship of General Education Department of Asia
University after which in 1991 he was appointed as the Shuseki Shihan of
the JKA in 1991. The JKA conferred the 9th Dan on him in April 1992. In
2008, the JKA conferred the 10th Dan on the Master. He retired from the
post of Chief Instructor in October 2009 due to ill health and old age
at the age of 85. He is succeeded by Ueki sensei.
