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:マーシャルアーツ日本キックボクシング連盟, M.A.J.K.F.）　is the Japan

Japan

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-based sanctioning and promoting body of professional kickboxing

Kickboxing

Kickboxing refers to a group of martial arts and stand-up combat sports based on kicking and punching, historically developed from karate, Muay Thai and western boxing....

. It was established in 1985. "MA Nihon" or "MA Kick" are common names for the native Japanese kickboxing fans

Fan (person)

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Establishment

Martial Arts Japan Kickboxing Federation (MAJKF) was stablished in 1985 by Katsumasa Ishikawa to leave for Japan Kickboxing Federation (JKF). He was a former chairman of JKF. After establishment, some members seceded from All Japan Martial Arts Federation (AJMAF), the rival organization of JKF, joined MAJKF.

Split(AJKF)

In June 1987, Jun Nishikawa who was an executive of MAJKF left there with many members, and he established All Japan Kickboxing Federation

All Japan Kickboxing Federation

All Japan Kickboxing Federation was the Japan-based sanctioning and promoting body of professional kickboxing. It was established in 1987 and it was dissolved in 2009. The informal name was "Zen Nihon Kikku...

 (AJKF). For this incident, all of the champions sanctioned by MAJKF were removed to AJKF.

Establishment of the unified championships and ratings

On January 11, 2009, MAJKF, New Japan Kickboxing Federation (NJKF), and Japan Professional Muay Thai Committee (JPMC)　gave a press conference to announce establishment of the unified championships and ratings.

World Martial Arts Federation

World Martial Arts Federation(WMAF) is the championship title of Japanese kickboxing. It was established in 1998 by the promoters of MAJKF and other American promoters. WMAF stopped its management in 1998 just after sanctioning some world champions, and it started activity in 2005 again. WMAF is currently sanctioning some world champions of professional kickboxing. WMAF is controlled by MAJKF, so the head office is in the office of MAJKF in Tokyo.

Notable kickboxers from MAJKF

• Yasuhiro Kido
  Yasuhiro Kido
  Yasuhiro Kido is a Japanese welterweight kickboxer competing in K-1 MAX. He is 2008 K-1 World MAX Japan tournament champion.-Early years:Yasuhiro Kido was born in Kanagawa, Japan on December 25, 1982. When he was a junior high school student, he belonged to a track and field athletics team, and...
  
  
• David Archuleta
• Yasuhito Shirasu

Commissioner

• Ichiro Ozawa
  Ichiro Ozawa
  is a Japanese politician. Formerly a chief secretary of the Liberal Democratic Party , he later defected from the LDP. He was the president of Japan's main opposition party, the Democratic Party of Japan , from 2006 until May 2009, when he resigned over a fund scandal, and secretary general of the...
  
   (The 1st commissioner)
• Yasukazu Hamada
  Yasukazu Hamada
  is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet . A native of Futtsu, Chiba and graduate of Senshu University he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1993.In the Cabinet of Prime Minister Taro Aso, appointed...
  
  (The current commissioner)

Trivia

• Although the correct translation of "連盟"was "Federation" in English, the logo mark of MAJKF were written as "Martial Arts Japapn Kickboxing Association" until August 2006 because of the designer's mistake in 1985.

External links

• Martial Arts Japan Kickboxing Federation Official Website (Japanese)