Together in 1992, they co-founded the Shotokan Karate Center (SKC). By 1988, he was assisting with instruction at the Japan Karate Association Hawaii Waiau Dojo along with his friend, Sensei Paul Imada. Upon returning to Hawaii, he trained and taught under Senseis Ed Fujiwara and Kenneth Funakoshi at the KAH Mililani Dojo throughout much of the 1980s. Anderson in Lompoc, California, and also taught airmen in his own classes on base. Sensei Wes went on to spend a tour at Vandenberg Air Force Base where he was an assistant instructor under Sensei F. By May of 1974, he was promoted to Shodan, and also received his college degree, a commission as an officer in the US Air Force and got married all within a span of one month. Sensei Wes quickly advanced to the rank of brown belt in less than a year. Inspired by seeing his close friend Peter Yuh progressing in karate at the highly competitive KAH UH Dojo, he decided to resume his training in the Fall of 1971.
However, he discontinued his training shortly after to focus on his studies at the University of Hawaii (UH).
In late 1970, Sensei Wes became interested in learning karate and briefly began training in Shotokan Karate-Do under renowned Sensei Kenneth Funakoshi at his Karate Association of Hawaii (KAH) Pearl City Dojo. He began his martial arts journey first studying Aikido in his youth from 1963 to 1968 under Senseis Koa Kimura and Donald Moriyama in Pearl City. Sensei Wesley Nakamoto was born in Honolulu in 1951.
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