Peter Chong (karateka)

Peter Chong, PBM is a Kyokushin karate master and a former Assistant Superintendent of Police in Singapore. He is the International Committee Chairman for Asia and the Middle East in the International Karate Organization founded by Masutatsu Oyama and now led by Shokei Matsui.

Chong was born as Chong Seh Jam in 1941 in Singapore. As a boy, he was bullied by his classmates. Chong began training in martial arts under his father in 1955, at the age of 14, but the training stopped when his father adopted a nonviolent philosophy due to its perceived conflict with his new Roman Catholic faith.

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