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I’m glad to announce that a project that I worked on with the Japanese kendo magazine “Kendo Jidai” has finally made it to daylight. This is their first ever product aimed specifically at the non-Japanese market, and if everything goes well (i.e. good sales) then hopefully they will go on to produce more English language … Continue reading Kamei Toru sensei’ […]

Apologies everyone for my long absence from posting in this blog! Last November we moved home. At the same time my wife was operated on for Brain Cancer, so kendo took a back seat. In December I got the news that I have Stomach Cancer (one of Japan’s most popular). For a lifetime henna gaijin, […]

In my experience the Japanese are better at maths than us Brits. Whereas for years we have been taught “new Maths” where calculators are an integral part of the process, Japanese children are still taught by rote, in a similar … Continue reading →

The Mito Tōbukan was written about previously on this site. Since then it underwent a more than year long relocation and reconstruction. Dismantling of the original structure took place from January 2014 to March 2014. Reconstruction then took until March … Continue reading →