On the first weekend of new year , 4 - 6 January the annual Winter Camp Mitsumine 2003 was held. 188 Kyokushin karateka from Japan, Korea, Chile and Poland participated in this event which was organized by the IKO Kyokushinkaikan Honbu.
The leading instructor of the camp was Kancho Shokei Matsui. The assistant instructors were shihan Yuzo Goda and shihan Isamu Fukuda. Japanese national team preparing for the 8th World Open Category Championships participated in the camp.
During the whole camp Japanese television was present, preparing the review from this event. Additionally the team from Korea came to make the Kyokushin promotion video to be broadcasted in their country.