The National Sports Festival (KOKUTAI) is the Japan’s largest national sports meet. The first National Sports Festival was held in 1946 in the Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe region, mainly in Kyoto. Since then, the Festival has been held every year with prefectures competing against one another, with prefectures hosting the festival in succession. In 1961, the National Sports …
Read more »I went to Osaka Budo-sai (festival) today and watched a budo demonstration consisting all of the normal GENDAI BUDO, or the group of modern cognate martial arts that exist today in Japan. All these martial art associations are members of the Nippon Budo Kyogikai (日本武道協議会). Who are these guys and where kendo and its related …
Read more »The Irish International Goodwill Taikai is an annual event that started 8 years ago and has become more and more popular every year since then. For the first few years the event was combined with the Irish National Championships but it has recently got so popular (over 100 competitors this year) that the events have …
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