The traditional Japanese martial art of kendo is steeped in tradition and has a strong and growing following in Australia. Kendo, known as 'the way of the sword', was developed in the 1600s as a ...

It must be hard to keep your composure when a bamboo sword comes crashing down on your head. Kendo fighters score points for striking an opponent's head, wrists or torso Competitors say it gives them ...

Fourteen years ago, while walking with a friend, a piercing yell echoed suddenly down the hall of my university. As we followed the sound, eyebrows raised, a different sense began to take over. The ...

New York City now has its own hometown virtuoso in the swordsmanship of the samurai. Shozo Kato, 54, recently became the third person from outside of Japan to pass the notoriously difficult exam for ...

A week since my first Kendo class with the Chennai Kendo Club, I find myself often zoning in and out of a larger cosmic zen. When things go wrong, I say ‘utsuke’ (meaning idiot) and when I wish to ...

Hiroshi Kaneko, on a cross-country quest for kendo knowledge, is seen at the Yukuhashi Renshinkan dojo in Yukuhashi, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Nov. 6, 2022. (Mainichi/Masaki Matsumoto) YUKUHASHI, Fukuoka ...