For many years the all-Japan Police
Judo champion,
Miyazato Ei'ichi Sensei trained in
Goju Ryu Karate under
Miyagi Chojun for the longest of all the seniors, from 1938 until his death 1953. At the request of his peers, the responsibility for teaching Goju Ryu was then passed to Miyazato Ei'ichi. In 1957 he founded the
Jundokan dojo in Asato, Naha City. In 1972 he retired from the Police force, built a new dojo and devoted the rest of his life to teaching Karate Do. Students of Sensei Miyazato included Yasuda Tetsunosuke, Minei Nanko, Nakasone Keikichi,
Chuck Merriman, and
Chinen Teruo. Miyazato Sensei died
11 December 1999.