Tatsuo Yamada died in 1967 and his dojo changed its name to Suginami Gym continuing to kickboxers and enriching the modality. Kickboxing grew and became popular in Japan, being broadcast once a week on television. In 1970, audiences increased and began to be broadcast on three different channels three times a week. That same year Osamu Noguchi opened a gym in the center of Bangkok. The 'Noguchi Boxing Gym' was a branch of his Japanese academy. Innovative for the time, it had a small dining area, where customers could enjoy themselves and could eat while the athletes trained. Osamu Noguchi by lapse, in a local press interview made statements where he claimed to be the creator of the combat art practiced in his gym called kickboxing. He was immediately accused of stealing a Thai national art and received a letter from the Government demanding the immediate exchange of the name. At that time, those statements even claiming to have been uttered unequivocally, generated stones and bottles thrown at the door of his gymnasium, which consequently had to be closed shortly after.
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