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November 3rd 2010. While shinai were clashing at the Nippon Budokan for the 58th All Japan Kendo Championships, the Meiji Jingu was celebrating the 90th anniversary of the enshrinement of Emperor ...

On Sunday, October 31, the 58th All Japan Students' Kendo Championship Tournament was held in Osaka. Some of the traditional powerhouses such as Kokushikan, Chuo Univ. and Kanoya were forced out of the tournament in the early rounds making for an interesting field by the quarter-finals:

Waseda vs. Tsukuba
Tokai vs. Senshuu
Ritsumeikan vs. Kagoshima
Nippon Sport Science Univ. vs. Keio
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By Kendo World Staff Writer Kate Sylvester

The 49th All Japan Women’s Competition was held in Fujieda City, Shizuoka on Saturday 26th September. The top sixty four competitors representing Japan’s fourty seven prefectures gathered for the most prestigious Women’s annual kendo event.
The experience and talent of competitors ranged from 2nd to 6th Dan’s, high school student to the kendo greats, for whom it was their 17th time entering the competition.
The majority of last year’s World Kendo Championship team members were not present, with twenty six first timers in the taikai. The competition promised to be filled with displays of fresh exciting Kendo representing the new era of women’s Kendo in Japan. ...

The remaining videos from the SportAccord Combat Games Women's Individual Kendo Competition. ...