Template:JKA World Champions - Male Kumite

v t e JKA World Champions - Male Kumite
1975 to 1983 - IAKF World Championships	1975: Masahiko Tanaka 1977: Masahiko Tanaka 1980: Toshihiro Mori 1983: Hideo Yamamoto
1985 - 2004 - Shoto Cup	1985: Minoru Kawawada 1987: Tomio Imamura 1990: Masayoshi Kagawa 1992: Tomio Imamura 1994: Pavlo Protopapa 1996: Don Sharp 1998*: Toshihito Kokubun 2000: Toshihito Kokubun 2004: Koji Ogata
2006 - present Funakoshi Gichin Cup	2006: Koji Ogata 2011: Rikiya Iimura
Notes	Between 1990 and 1999 there was a legal dispute between two groups claiming to be the official JKA - the Nakahara faction and the Matsuno faction. Before the dispute was settled in favour of the Nakahara faction both groups held world championships under the banner of the JKA. The results of the JKA (Matsuno faction) world championships are not detailed above.