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Details here are for the 2025<\/strong> seminar. More information will be added over time.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Head instructor: Yano Nobuhiro<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This years Edinburgh kendo seminar (2025) will be led by Yano Nobuhiro sensei, kyoshi hachidan<\/a>. Yano sensei spent decades as one of a small handful of elite professional police kendo instructors that work in Osaka police department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After graduating from Miyazaki prefectures kendo-powerhouse, Takachiho high school (while still a student his team managed second place in the All Japan High School Championships), he joined Osaka police force in order to pursue his passion for kendo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a police man he spent a few years in the tokuren squad (a small group of select men and women whose job is to do kendo day-in-day-out)<\/em> before being hand-picked to become a police kendo instructor, something than not all tokuren members are given the opportunity to do. His first position after instructor-training finished was a five year stint as a teacher at the Osaka police academy. Soon after this period, in 2008, he passed hachidan<\/a> on his first attempt (he was 46 years old at the time)<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the last ten+ years, like other police kendo instructors, Yano sensei has moved around different police stations within Osaka prefecture teaching kendo to police men and women of all ages and abilities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yano sensei retired from the police in 2021 and is now a kendo teacher at a private university. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2025 seminar will be Yano sensei’s fourth time (first<\/a>, second<\/a>, third<\/a>) teaching kendo in Scotland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full name: Yano Nobuhiro<\/strong>
Grade: Kyoshi hachidan<\/strong>
Born: 1962, Miyazaki prefecture<\/strong>
Work: Osaka police dept. (1982~2021); Private university (2021-current) <\/strong>
Passed hachidan: 2008<\/strong> (first attempt)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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