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# Koenkai 2025 Meeting
- URL: https://www.gojukarate.com/koenkai-2025-meeting/
- Published: 2025-01-07T16:30:34.000Z
- Updated: 2025-01-07T16:30:33.000Z
- Description: The Koenkai 2025 Meeting will be held immediately following Kagami Biraki on Saturday, January 18, 2025.
- Author: Goju Karate
- Tags: Sensei

The **Koenkai** is the group of blackbelts (shodan and above) of the dojo who support and advise Sensei, and who act to move forward the goals of the dojo.

**Koenkai (後援会)** literally means "support group" and the concept of a koenkai has been integral to dojo for centuries. In fact, the concept even has applicability in modern Japan's political system, in which most Japanese members of the *Diet* (the main national legislature in Japan) have a koenkai that helps them raise funds and advises on policy and politics.

The 2025 meeting of the *Koenkai* wll occur immediately following [Kagami Biraki](https://www.gojukarate.com/kagami-biraki-2025/) on Saturday, January 18th, 2025\. Members not present in New York City will be able to attend via livestream.

All blackbelts (including shonen blackbelts) are required to attend this important annual meeting.