The Unauthorized Use of Sosai Mas Oyama’s Legacy

PUBLIC CLARIFICATION REGARDING KWO (MAS OYAMA)

Summary of Findings and Continuing Review

Honbu Committee originally intended to issue this clarification a year ago.

Publication was deferred because the matters under review involved multiple jurisdictions, incomplete records, and questions concerning potential fraud, misrepresentation, organizational registration, and the unauthorized use of intellectual property.

Honbu Committee has now reviewed the available communications, agreements, certificates, digital materials, and historical records concerning Alexander Anferov, Flemming Jinzen Schrøter, and the organization operating as KWO (Mas Oyama).

This statement summarizes the findings presently supported by those records. Certain matters remain under review. Although we find breach in their conduct, this statement should not be interpreted as a declaration of criminal guilt, which can only be determined by the appropriate authorities in Denmark.

At the outset, the following facts must be stated clearly.

Neither Alexander Anferov nor Flemming Jinzen Schrøter was appointed as a branch chief or any faculty by Sosai Masutatsu Oyama.

Neither man received authority from Sosai Masutatsu Oyama to represent his IKO Kyokushinkaikan, issue ranks in his name, reproduce his signature, or independently use the names and identifying marks associated with his organization, including IKO, Kyokushin, Kyokushinkaikan, 極真, and 極真会館.

Any limited relationship that either man later established with the Oyama family could not—retroactively convert either individual into a branch chief appointed by Sosai Masutatsu Oyama.

The unauthorized signatures and certificates

Honbu Committee has reviewed certificates circulated by Mr. Schrøter that bear digitally reproduced versions of Sosai Masutatsu Oyama’s Japanese and Roman-letter signatures.

Mr. Schrøter was not authorized to reproduce or place either signature upon certificates issued in Denmark or elsewhere.

Ms. Oyama’s name has also been used in connection with KWO materials in a manner creating the appearance of recognition or approval by the Oyama family. No permission for such use was granted.

Sosai Masutatsu Oyama did not examine these certificates and did not authorize Mr. Schrøter to reproduce or apply his signature or his Kanku and Kanji that represents his karate. The Oyama family did not grant Mr. Schrøter permission to do so.

Accordingly, certificates bearing those reproduced signatures, wording and logos are materially misleading.

Depending upon how such certificates were represented, distributed, or sold, their use may present a serious risk of fraud and misrepresentation. Any final determination of criminal liability remains a matter for the competent authorities.

How access to family materials was obtained

In 2019, Mr. Anferov and later Mr. Schrøter approached that they wished to assist Ms. Oyama.

On the basis of those representations, limited access was provided to certain information, historical materials, and organizational data.

That access was granted for a specific and restricted purpose. It was not a transfer of ownership. It was not a permanent licence. It did not confer independent authority to establish an organization, issue ranks, reproduce signatures, or use family materials after the relationship ended.

When it became clear that the activities being conducted did not correspond with the assistance originally represented, consent was expressly withdrawn.

Mr. Schrøter was repeatedly instructed to remove the reproduced signatures of Sosai Masutatsu Oyama and to cease using the names Mas Oyama and Kyokushin in connection with unauthorized activities.

Those instructions were not followed.

Access obtained through an offer of assistance cannot later be presented as evidence of permanent authorization. Continued retention or use of the data after consent was withdrawn is unauthorized and may materially misrepresent the nature of the original relationship.

Circumstances in which trust was extended

The circumstances existing in 2018 and 2019 are included solely to explain why offers of assistance were considered.

In 2018, Ms. Oyama’s marriage ended. Approximately one month after her husband’s departure, their son was arrested and the dojo temporarily closed. Ms. Oyama remained responsible for a five-story building with a basement, together with its taxes, maintenance, and continuing obligations, while attempting to manage the serious crisis involving her son.

The family and organizational structure were therefore experiencing substantial disruption when Mr. Anferov approached Ms. Oyama in 2019.

Ms. Oyama was not seeking to establish a separate division within Kyokushin. She was attempting to preserve her father’s legacy and maintain essential operations during an exceptional family and organizational crisis.

Her willingness to consider assistance did not constitute a permanent transfer of Sosai Masutatsu Oyama’s name, signatures, marks, materials, or authority.

Alexander Anferov

Mr. Anferov had worked with Ms. Oyama’s former husband through IKO Sosai for an extended period.

However, the available records do not establish a complete and independently verifiable account of Mr. Anferov’s Kyokushin training, instructor, original organization, black-belt history, or rank-granting authority.

The organizational name entered in connection with the proposed branch arrangement has not been independently confirmed through the records available during Sosai’s time until 1994.

Following the departure of Ms. Oyama’s former husband, Mr. Anferov contacted Ms. Oyama in 2019. Because they did not share a common language, their communications took place with the assistance of a translator.

Approximately five discussions were held concerning the continuation of international activity. Mr. Anferov proposed the name KWO (Mas Oyama), stating that it would honor Sosai Masutatsu Oyama, Honbu, and the Oyama family.

Ms. Oyama agreed that Mr. Anferov could act as the principal coordinator for the proposed group for national security of groups in each country.

That decision gave Mr. Anferov a limited role within an arrangement proposed in 2019. It did not make him a branch chief appointed by Sosai Masutatsu Oyama. It did not grant him authority originating from Sosai or permission to present himself as part of Sosai’s historical hierarchy.

Mr. Anferov later referred to the war and practical difficulties affecting international operations.

Records also indicate later activity involving Mr. Anferov traveling to Poland expressing behalf of Ms. Oyama and were not disclosed to the Polish supporters in advance of Mr. Schroeter showing up to exercise his unfounded seniority thus Appointing himself as the new president.

When concerns were subsequently raised regarding Mr. Schrøter’s conduct and the failure to complete the proposed arrangements, Mr. Anferov ceased substantive communication with the family.

Flemming Jinzen Schrøter

Mr. Schrøter had previously maintained a limited association with IKO Sosai during the period in which Ms. Oyama’s former husband was involved.

Following a dispute involving a then a Romanian branch, Mr. Schrøter left and joined Kyokushin-kan under Mr. Royama where he received another rank. He subsequently left Kyokushin-kan and moved through other affiliations to gather more ranks.

Mr. Schrøter now presents himself as a 9th Dan through KWO.

Honbu Committee has not identified an independent grading authority that examined Mr. Schrøter and conferred the intervening ranks culminating in 9th Dan of Kyokushin Karate.

On the information presently available, the 9th Dan appears to have been granted within this pseudo organization under his own control.

An association with one organization, a rank obtained from another, and a later title issued through one’s own organization do not collectively establish a continuous line of authority from Sosai Masutatsu Oyama.

When Mr. Anferov and Schrøter offered to return and assist, a proposed agreement was prepared.

The agreement was intended to define the limited nature of his role, establish financial and administrative accountability, and regulate any use of names and intellectual property associated with Sosai Masutatsu Oyama and the Oyama family to administer common unity legally amongst other groups.

Mr. Schrøter received the proposed agreement. He did not sign and return an executed copy.

Instead the  Information was later used by Mr. schroeter indicating the used the materials that was taken from the Oyama family , to position himself for his group as a leader which making more duplicates of Kyokuhsin groups is what needed but  to be reassessed.

Preliminary reviews conducted by third party through contacts in Denmark have not confirmed Mr. Schroeter claimed entity’s complete registration, operating status, financial reporting, or required filings through the publicly available Danish data examined to date and in- person inquiries to the Danish bureaucratic authorities.

A registration number alone does not establish legal continuance of the heritage without properly aligned and constituted, remaining compliant to the affiliation affidavit , submitted the required financial records to authorities or possessed authority from Sosai Masutatsu Oyama nor does it present the inheritance of his estate.

When explanations and records were requested, Mr. Schrøter referred to his diabetes and stated that he was no longer operating. Those statements appear in his last direct written communications with the Oyama family through social media.

Activities under the KWO (Mas Oyama) name nevertheless continued. Certificates bearing reproduced signatures were subsequently identified.

Mr. Schrøter was formally instructed to remove Masutatsu Oyama from the organization’s name and to cease using Sosai Masutatsu Oyama’s Japanese and Roman-letter signatures, the Kyokushin name, the associated kanji marks, and materials obtained through the family relationship.

He did not comply with those instructions.

Neither previous access to family materials nor possession of an unsigned proposed agreement constitutes continuing authorization.

Necessity of a national registry

The serious issues of KWO (Mas Oyama) demonstrates why we ask trusted people in every country to require a properly constituted national body and national registry.

A national registry provides an official record of:

• who is authorized to teach;

• where a rank originated;

• who issued that rank;

• whether the issuing authority was legitimate;

• what names and materials may be used; and

• whether an individual’s authorization remains current.

Without such a registry, individuals may move between fragmented organizations, collect ranks and historical materials from different sources, and later present those separate elements as though they form one authentic and continuous line from Sosai Masutatsu Oyama.

The public should not be required to determine legitimacy from a photograph, an unsupported title, an old or unsigned agreement, or a digitally reproduced signature.

Present status

Honbu Committee is continuing to review the activities, ranks, certificates, organizational representations, claimed Danish registration, and use of intellectual property associated with Alexander Anferov, Flemming Jinzen Schrøter, and KWO (Mas Oyama).

The immediate purpose of this statement is to prevent students, instructors, organizations, and members of the public from being misled.

Neither Alexander Anferov nor Flemming Jinzen Schrøter was appointed as a branch chief by Sosai Masutatsu Oyama.

Neither man received authority from Sosai Masutatsu Oyama to represent his IKO Kyokushinkaikan, issue ranks in his name, reproduce his signatures, or use his historical authority as the basis for present-day organizational legitimacy.

No later relationship or arrangement may truthfully be presented as though such authority originated from Sosai Masutatsu Oyama nor the Oyama family connection.

Further investigation is in process and information will be released by the continuing review of these pseudo operations.

Mas Oyama Kyokushinkaikan

Office of Honbu Commitee