“We are the leading martial arts school in Sri Lanka offering the best instruction, best facility and best service for karate players!”

If you are searching for a martial arts school for yourself, or your child, then we are the best choice.

Our group follows the tradition of Mabuni’s teachings through Grand Master Seiko Suzuki. Born in Chiba-ken Japan in 1936, Seiko Suzuki began his career in Karatedo in 1954 under the tutelage of Ryusho Sakagami. While Sakagami Sensei had many good students in Odaka, Yakohama and Tokyo, Suzuki Sensei was certainy considered one of the best. He was renowned for his tachnical knowledge and his bility to grasp new techniques and concepts very quickly. Above all, he became known for his smooth and powerful tecniqur. He often performed kata for Sakagami Senei at demostrations and workshops.

After Sekagamis passing in 1993, Suzuki Sensei decided to found his own style, the Suzuki-ha Shito-ryu Nihon Karatedo Seiko-kai. Headquartered in Japan, there are Seiko-kai dojo Canada and the United States, Venezuela and Argentina, as well as Ghana, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal and the Philippines, Germany, Netherlands, Swisland, Portugal, Germany, Iran

The Chief Instructor (called Sensei in Japanese) of Canada is Sensei Yoshiaki Akira Sato of Vancouver. Sensei Sato was a student of Grand Master Suzuki. As you can see, lineage generally follows through your instructor.

Suzuki sensei and Ruwan Satharasinghe in Tokyo, June, 2005

Ruwan Satharasinghe was born in Sri Lanka in 1974. He has three sisters and one older brother, His father, who has passed away many years ago, was an adept in Chinese martial arts and was the inspiration for Ruwan and his brother to become karate teachers. Ruwan started to study karate at the age of 11 and has now a third degree black belt. He is married and has one daughter. To show the world, his dedication to karate, he named his daughter Shito. In June 2005 he realized his dream of going to Japan. With four of his students he attended the Koshiki Karate-do Tournament in Tokyo, where he got fourth place in kata. He also met and studied with Suzuki sensei.

He has currently about 200 students and with his senior black belts teaches at 15 different dojos, including several International Schools in and near Colombo in Sri Lanka. He hopes to eventually build a private dojo in Panadura.