In 1976, Shihan Toshiaki Nogiwa was sent to Mexico as a coach of Japan Shito-Kai in the cities of Monterrey, Piedras Negras, and Saltillo, Coahuila, where the club of Karate-Do of the Universidad Autónoma Agraria Antonio Narro (UAAAN)was initiated in 1977, which remains under his technical direction.