An apolitical organization, teaching traditional Shotokan karate

Affiliation

• All BSK(I) representatives/instructors have a traditional and mainstream Shotokan background.

• Grading organizations, or direct lineage to these organizations are accepted by the BSK(I). All other grades will

 JKA (Sugiura)

 JKA (Asai)

 JSKA (Abe)

 JKS (Kagawa)

 SKIF (Kanazawa)

 WSKF (Kasuya)

 ISKDA (Sumi)

 KWF (Yahara)

 ISKF (Okazaki)

 ITKF (Nishiyama)

 IJKA (Asai)

 SKA (Oshima)