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02-19-2003, 03:30 PM
Kung-fu instructor killed in martial-arts brawl
NARITA -- A Shaoling kung-fu master has bashed another martial artist to death in a bareknuckle duel, police said Monday.
A long-standing dispute had fueled the deadly match-up between Kenji Tamai, a kung-fu instructor of Sakura, Chiba Prefecture, and fellow instructor Masaharu Yamada of Narita, Tamai told officers who arrested him for manslaughter.
"We had a thing to settle so I did him," Tamai, 43, was quoted by police as saying. He has not disclosed the roots of the dispute.
The duo confronted each other at around 9.30 p.m. Sunday at the gymnasium of a Narita nursery school where they instructed children in the ways of Shaolin kung-fu. According to Tamai, he rushed at his 48-year-old rival, landing dozens of punches and kicks until Yamada collapsed.
Tamai then brought Yamada to hospital but was arrested after the latter died in Monday's predawn hours. (Mainichi Shimbun, July 23, 2001)
NARITA -- A Shaoling kung-fu master has bashed another martial artist to death in a bareknuckle duel, police said Monday.
A long-standing dispute had fueled the deadly match-up between Kenji Tamai, a kung-fu instructor of Sakura, Chiba Prefecture, and fellow instructor Masaharu Yamada of Narita, Tamai told officers who arrested him for manslaughter.
"We had a thing to settle so I did him," Tamai, 43, was quoted by police as saying. He has not disclosed the roots of the dispute.
The duo confronted each other at around 9.30 p.m. Sunday at the gymnasium of a Narita nursery school where they instructed children in the ways of Shaolin kung-fu. According to Tamai, he rushed at his 48-year-old rival, landing dozens of punches and kicks until Yamada collapsed.
Tamai then brought Yamada to hospital but was arrested after the latter died in Monday's predawn hours. (Mainichi Shimbun, July 23, 2001)