Recently, a new book regarding the history of kendo was released by the publishers of Kendo Nippon Magazine. The book, A Bilingual Guide to the History of Kendo, is, as its title suggests, a bilingual guide to the history of kendo. The author is Sakai Toshinobu, expert in sword history and professor at the University of Tsukuba. The English translation was done by me.

The book is comprised of a number of essays outlining the earliest sword ideals from the continent and how they were introduced and developed in Japan, right through the international situation of the art in the 21st century. ...

Greetings to all of our valued subscribers. You will be happy to know that the latest issue of the Kendo World journal (Vol. 5.2) is now at the printers! This issue is crammed with a selection of fascinating topics written by our team of dedicated kendo researchers and expert guest writers. The following synopsis will give you an idea of the variety of essays contained in the world’s only English language journal dedicated to kendo and related arts.

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By Blake Bennett
Held in Osaka for the past three years, this year’s 58th All Japan University Student Men’s Kendo Championships was held in Tokyo’s Budokan on the 4th of July, 2010.

Beginning early Sunday morning, scores of the future of Japanese men’s kendo donned their best blues, and began to slug it out for the coveted title as Japan’s number 1.
Word around the stadium picked athletes from both Kokushikan University and Kanoya Physical Education University (Kanoya Taiiku Daigaku) as the horses to bet on – a wager any punter (Sumo wrestler or otherwise) would be a fool to pass up considering these universities results in the women's competition the previous day.
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