12th WKC / Japan Delegation

[Luis Trabuco]

Dear Friends,

Here's the Japanese Delegation for the 12th World Kendo Championships!

Delegation Leader: NISHIYAMA Yasuhiro (Kendo Hanshi 8-dan)
Men Team Manager: KOBAYASHI Hideo (Kendo Hanshi 8-dan)
Women Team Manager: HAMASAKI Mitsuru (Kendo Hanshi 8-dan)
Men Team Coach: TAKAHASHI Toshiaki (Kendo Kyoshi 8-dan)
Women Team Coach: OTSUKA Mayumi (Kendo 6-dan)

Men Team
1. EIGA Naoki (35) Hokkaido (Kendo 6-dan)
2. SATO Mitsunobu (29) Miyagi (Kendo 5-dan)
3. IGUCHI Kiyoshi (33) Saitama (Kendo 6-dan)
4. HIRAO Yasushi (35) Tokyo (Kendo 6-dan)
5. IWASA Hidenori (33) Tokyo (Kendo 6-dan)
6. TAKANABE Susumu (26) Kanagawa (Kendo 5-dan)
7. ANDO Kaigo (29) Aichi (Kendo 5-dan)
8. HIRATA Hiroaki (31) Osaka (Kendo 6-dan)
9. SATO Hiromitsu (29) Osaka (Kendo 5-dan)
10. TERAMOTO Shoji (27) Osaka (Kendo 5-dan)

Women Team
1. MURAYAMA Chinatsu (28) Saitama (Kendo 5-dan)
2. ASAHINA Shizuka (27) Tokyo (Kendo 5-dan)
3. SHINZATO Chikano (20) Tokyo (Kendo 4-dan)
4. HORIGUCHI Kyoko (25) Yamanashi (Kendo 4-dan)
5. BABA Keiko (24) Osaka (Kendo 4-dan)
6. HAGIHARA Juri (23) Osaka (Kendo 4-dan)
7. TSUBOTA Yuka (22) Okayama (Kendo 4-dan)
8. KUROIWA Naomi (29) Fukuoka (Kendo 5-dan)
9. OKADA Kei (22) Kumamoto (Kendo 4-dan)
10. ARISHIMA Kayo (27) Kagoshima (Kendo 5-dan)

Gambatte kudasai to all of us!

[KATSUJIN]

uhhh...where did u get this from??? becos from wat I know...each country can only send 7 men and 7 women max for participation....

[KhawMengLee]

Its 10 men adn 10 women dude(least that is what I heard from Toyoda Sensei).

[kendokamax]

delegation is 10 people

but the team is 7 people

so 3 others just play in individual.

right?

[KATSUJIN]

well...from wat I know....only 14 participants max...only 5 can play at any category....

[Luis Trabuco]

Dear friend,

You can see many updates information regarding Kendo in Japan through the webpage of All Japan Kendo Federation.
About the Japanese Delegation:
http://www.kendo.or.jp/jp/news/12wkc-news.html

With compliments from Macau!

[Neil Gendzwill]

The limit is 10 for each team AFAIK. This year Canada is sending 9 on the men's team and 7 for the women.

The limit for the team matches is 7 (5 play at a time). If you send more than 7 the others are limited to the individual matches.

[Confound]

Who will be going from other countries? Who is in the Canadian delegation, and the British one?

c

[Neil Gendzwill]

Men's Team

1) Suguru Asaoka
2) Daisaku Taguchi
3) Taro Ariga
4) Eddie Yamashita
5) Matthew Raymond
6) Kiyotaka Kamata
7) Dean Ara
8) Shigemitsu Kamata
9) Takashi Yamada

Ladies' Team

1) Wendy Nakano
2) Misato Akitaya
3) Hana Ariga
4) Takako Matisz (yay! from my dojo)
5) Chiharu Hao
6) Natsuko Fukushima
7) Makiko Hayashi

See here for (not very flattering, passport-type) pictures:

http://www.kendo-canada.com/teamcanada/team/index.htm

[Kenshi]

Canadian Team:
http://kendo-canada.com/teamcanada/team/index.htm

I cant see the UK team doing anything like this [thankfully] !

[Kenshi]

You beat me neil!!!

[Neil Gendzwill]

I think those photos are the ones the IKF requires, so yeah your team will be doing them - maybe not putting them up on the website...

Forgot:
Delegation leader - Roy Asa
Manager - Rick Tizzard
Men's coach - Ray Murao
Ladies' coach - Mark Noda
Men's captain - Taro Ariga
Ladies' captain - Wendy Nakano (now Robillard)