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I've trekked up to the very top of Honshu to check out the inaugural Maguro cup, a middle-school kendo competition held in Oma. Oma is well-known in Japan for the maguro, or yellow-fin tuna, that are caught in the tumultuous meeting of the Pacific and the Sea of Japan between Hokkaido and Honshu. They have held a local competition here for the last 36 years, but this is the first time they've held a tournament open to schools from other prefectures. As most of the teams attending have suffered since the tsunami and earthquake on 3/11, it's also meant to act as a picker-upper ...

The 19th All Japan Jukendo Championship was held on August 5th, 2011, at the Nippon Budokan. ...

The 5th World Naginata Champs, held in Himeji, Japan on the 3rd of July, 2011.

The biggest upset of the day was KW Editor-in-chief Alex Bennett defeating the current All Japan men's champion, Itagaki, 1-0 in the semi-finals, before falling to Tanaka of Japan in a hard-fought final. It is the ...

Report by Taylor Winter

The 29^th of May saw the 59^thAll Japan Prefectural Championships hosted in Osaka. Granting there was only a short notice, I made it to the grand Chuotaikūkan with haste upon hearing that my prefecture of Osaka had already smashed through the first round with their taishō (Kanzaki Sensei of Osaka Taikuu Daigakku) destroying his opponents men. ...