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At about the same time that these American instructors returned to the United States, the first Japanese instructors who had a full command of the martial arts also began to arrive. Some Americans who had trained in authentic schools in Japan sought out these Japanese instructors, resumed their training, and founded small clubs. This contingent became the core of true karate practitioners in the United States, those who followed the authentic teachings of the Japanese schools. The severity of the training and rigid discipline insured that their numbers were kept small, just as in Japan, where many train but few become high ranking belts. Even so, students of these new clubs found themselves training under the Japanese karate missionaries, such masters as Tsutomu Oshima, Hidetaka Nishiyama, Gosei Yamaguchi, Teruyuki Okazaki, Takayuki Mikami, Yoshiaki Ajari, and Fumio Demura.

By comparison, those schools run by the unqualified American instructors proliferated because of their exotic appearance and their appeal to the unusual. Training in them in many cases was inferior, and many of the students promoted to black belt would not have achieved such a rank in authentic karate clubs. The graduates of these schools in turn opened their own clubs and promoted students. Eventually, organizations were founded and had large numbers of people under their influence.