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In 1968, Hanshi Suzuki
Masafumi formed in Kyoto (Japan) the «Japanese
Seibukan Académy - All Japan Budo Federation»,
the official Japanese federation for all
Japanese Martial arts.
In 1968, Hanshi Masafumi formed the IJJF
(International Ju Jitsu Federation) with Alfred
Hasemeier and Vernon C. F. Bell.
In 1968, Alfred Hasemeier and Vernon C.
F. Bell create the EJJU (European
JuJitsu/JuJutsu Union), linked with the IJJF
for Europe.
In 1973, the Japanese Seibukan Academy
recognizes the IJJF as its world branch for Ju
Jitsu and the EJJU as its branch for Ju Jitsu
in Europe.
In 1984, the IJJF and the EJJU are
recognized as members of UNESCO (United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization) and of the ICSSPE (International
Council of the Science of Sports and Physical
Education).
UNESCO and the ICSSPE recognize the IJJF as the
world-leading organization for Ju-Jitsu.
The directory of international organizations,
qualifies the IJJF as «the world-leading
organization for all styles of Japanese
Ju-Jitsu based martial arts».
«The IJJF establishes training in the original
ancient styles of Japanese Ju-Jitsu, including
unarmed self-defence, and cultivates the
spiritual values of Japan, including the
Buddhist underpinning; it carries out
scientific research on the physical and mental
aspects of the ju-jitsu.»
In 1988, Grandmaster Stefano Surace
assumes the presidency of the WBI (World
Butokukai Institute) and founded the FFJJBA
(French Federation of Ju Jitsu Butokukai and
associated disciplines).
In 1995, the Japanese Seibukan Academy,
and its representatives for Ju Jitsu (IJJF and
EJJU), recognize grandmaster Hanshi Stefano
Surace as 10th dan Menkyo Kaiden in
Ju Jitsu.
In 1998, the FFJJBA, chaired by
Grandmaster Hanshi Stefano Surace, becomes the
French branch of the EJJU, and thus of the IJJF
and of the Seibukan Japanese Academy for Ju
Jitsu.
In 1998, World Butokukai Institute
recognize Grandmaster Javier Galan Vazquez, at
the time vice-president of the executive IJJF
and chairman of the EJJU, as an elite member
and Spanish representative.
In 1999, the EJJU makes Grandmaster
Hanshi Stefano Surace its vice-president and
technical director for Europe its
representative in France.
In 2004, the EJJU recognizes Grandmaster
T R. Crimi and Hikari Ryuza Ryu its
representative in the United States.
February 27, 2004, Vernon C. F. Bell,
President of the IJJF and of the EJJU, dies and
the presidency of these organizations is
entrusted to Grandmaster Javier Galan
Vazquez.
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