Universities in Japan/Korea

[Will]

I was looking into studying abroad for a semester or a year and I was wondering, what are the top universities to study Kendo or Kumdo (both in Japan and Korea). Anyone have experience at these schools? Recommendations of Universities to study at, what the training is like, the quality of the kenshii, how the students are, the class load, etc are all welcomed.

[kendokamax]

I was looking into studying abroad for a semester or a year and I was wondering, what are the top universities to study Kendo or Kumdo (both in Japan and Korea). Anyone have experience at these schools? Recommendations of Universities to study at, what the training is like, the quality of the kenshii, how the students are, the class load, etc are all welcomed.


Im actually looking at that myself for a future trip.
Budai (where I am right now) has a lot of very good kenshi, but there is so many people here that the training is not that so good. Mostly Jikeiko (almost never any basics in regular club practice). Kendo classes are good but you really need to push yourself for improving (i dont push myself as much as i would like).

As goes for other Universities. The strongest one in tournaments in the kantou region (tokyo, chiba, saitama, kanagawa ,etc..) are Chuou Daigaku, Tsukuba Daigaku, Saitama Daigaku, Toukai Daigaku, and some others.

I dont know how good are the training in each of these schools..so cant comment on that.

Tsukuba as the best girl's team in Japan (they won all japan twice in a row), I heard that the girl's coach is really really good and motivated. The guys are also good (they also won all japan two years in a row (but this year they lost kind of easely against our team) ).

Chuou has really impress me in tournaments.

Saitama looks like they are also getting really strong, doing well in the tournaments i went to see here.

There is also some very good university in other regions of japan, but I didnt really have the chance to see them in action.