Continued 1st chapter

One of the great promoters of this sport in Japan was Osamu Noguchi, who after this event visits Thailand, deepens his knowledge about muay thai and falls in love with this art of combat, considering it as the most efficient he had met until So. From there, he developed and promoted an art of fighting that was initially called karate-boxing. The name karate-boxe was suggested by Tatsuo Yamada in November 1959. There was a need to give a name to the tournament that was to be held a month later on December 20 at the Asakusa palace in Tokyo exclusively for Thai fighters. It is unclear who was the organizer of this event, but Tatsuo Yamada, creator of "nihon kempo karate-do", one of the variants of traditional karate, was one of the people most interested in this disclosure. As a sportsman, an activity that he also played, he was interested in spreading the muay thai through the spectacle and interest that this sport aroused in the spectators. He had already organized karate tournaments with full contact rules, an impossible thing in traditional karate, for not being allowed direct hits on opponents in this mode. At that time, traditional karate like shotokan, goju-ryu, wado-ryu among others, did not allow a direct contact fight, reason for which the masters created variants of the traditional karate, where they could use more, techniques of combat. Among many, this was how kyokushin or kyokushinkaikan was born, a technique far more aggressive than any other until then