Asian Karate Federation
The Asian Karate Federation is the governing body of sport karate of about 44 countries of karatedo federation in Asia.
The AKF is a non-profit organization and performs its activities on an amateur basis in compliance with the principles set forth in the Olympic Charter, duly
recognized by the World Karate Federation, the largest international governing body of sport karate with over 198 member countries. It is the only karate organization recognised by the Olympic Committee">Olympic Games">Olympic Committee and has more than fifty million members. The AKF organizes the Asian Karatedo Championships, the Junior and Senior AKF Championships in every two years in between the Olympic and Asian Games and participates in WKF World Karate Championships. The current president of the Asian Karate Federation is Major Gen Nasser Al Sayed Abdulrazak Alrazooqi of UAE and Mr. Kuong Im Che of Macau, China, serves as the secretary general.
History of AKF
Asian Karatedo Federation founded as APUKO in the year 1973.It changed to AUKO in 1992 after WUKO was admitted to IOC.
The name was changed again in 1999 to AKF in line with World Union of Karate-Do Organizations changed to World Karate Federation.
AKF Country Member's Federations
- Asian Karate Federation Affiliated Countries:
- Afghanistan
- Bangladesh
- Bahrain
- Bhutan
- Brunei
- Cambodia
- China
- Hong Kong
- Indonesia
- India
- Iraq
- Iran
- Jordan
- Japan
- Kazakhstan
- Korea
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Lao PDR
- Lebanon
- Macau
- Malaysia
- Mongolia
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- DPR Korea
- Qatar
- Saudi Arabia
- Singapore
- Sri Lanka
- Syria
- Thailand
- Tajikistan
- Timor-Leste
- Chinese Taipei
- Turkmenistan
- United Arab Emirates
- Uzbekistan
- Vietnam
- Yemen