# Mas Oyama

> He turned karate into something you could test by breaking bones — your opponent's or your own. Mas Oyama built Kyokushin around full contact, no pulled punches, and made it the template every hard style since has measured itself against.

*Korean-Japanese full-contact karate master, the founder of Kyokushin (1922-1994)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/mas-oyama

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** Japan
- **Born:** 1923-06-04
- **Died:** 1994-04-26
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born Choi Yeong-eui on 27 July 1923, he carried a Korean name into a Japanese art and remade both. He founded Kyokushin Karate, stripping away the ceremonial distance and insisting students hit for real. It became the first full-contact style that mattered, the one every other hard school had to reckon with. He died 26 April 1994, but the bruises are still standard issue.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 57.7 / 100
- **Momentum:** 1.2 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 25.0 / 100
- **Now attention:** 1.7 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 65.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 75.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **WEBSITE**: http://mas-oyama.com/

## Topics
#Business Professionals, #Writer / Author, #Literature, #Japan, #Asia, #20th Century

## Sources
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q294548)
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mas_Oyama)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Mas%20Oyama)
- [Masutatsu Oyama](https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masutatsu_Oyama)
- [Масутацу Ояма](https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%83_%D0%9E%D1%8F%D0%BC%D0%B0)
- [Masutatsu Ōyama](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masutatsu_%C5%8Cyama)
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- [Masutatsu Ōyama](https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masutatsu_%C5%8Cyama)
- [Ōyama Masutatsu](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Cyama_Masutatsu)
- [Masutatsu Ōyama](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masutatsu_%C5%8Cyama)
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- [Masutatsu Ōyama](https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masutatsu_%C5%8Cyama)
- [Masutatsu Ōyama](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masutatsu_%C5%8Cyama)
- [מסוטאצו אוימה](https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%98%D7%90%D7%A6%D7%95_%D7%90%D7%95%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%94)
- [Ójama Maszutacu](https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93jama_Maszutacu)
- [Մասուտացու Օյամա](https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%84%D5%A1%D5%BD%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%BF%D5%A1%D6%81%D5%B8%D6%82_%D5%95%D5%B5%D5%A1%D5%B4%D5%A1)
- [Masutatsu Ōyama](https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masutatsu_%C5%8Cyama)
- [Masutatsu Ōyama](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masutatsu_%C5%8Cyama)
- [大山倍達](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E5%B1%B1%E5%80%8D%E9%81%94)
- [최영의](https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%B5%9C%EC%98%81%EC%9D%98)
- [Masutatsu Oyama](https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masutatsu_Oyama)
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- [Masutatsu Oyama](https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masutatsu_Oyama)
- [Masutatsu Oyama](https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masutatsu_Oyama)
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