Hideo Yamamoto

Martial artist

山本英雄

Born

1955, Tokyo

Citizenship

Japan

Sport

karate

Occupation

karateka

Hideo Yamamoto (山本 英雄, Yamamoto Hideo) is a Japanese master of Shotokan karate. He won the IAKF world championship Kumite title in 1983, and he was twice JKA All-Japan kumite champion. He became the national coach of Japan.

Teachers

• Masatoshi Nakayama

External links

• Wikipedia
• Wikidata

Facts from Wikidata Q15987804 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.

Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.