Shihan Graham Keleher, (7th Dan) founded the Australian Academy of Martial Arts in Mt. Gravatt, Brisbane, in 1972 and  studied under Fujimoto Sensei from the early 1980s and was appointed Head of IKS in Australia. Forty years later, the Academy with Head of Style, Sensei Michael Howe, (5th Dan), still maintains strong links with the Honbu (Head) Dojo of IKS, now headed by Sensei Harutaka Fujimoto, (7th Dan), son of Sensei Sadaharu Fujimoto. Senior students and instructors of AAMA undertake regular training weeks at the Honbu Dojo of IKS. AAMA’s senior instructors also undertake regular training weeks at the Honbu Dojo of KARATE-DO SHOBUKAI in Japan.