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Aikido

Aikido: The Japanese Martial Art of Peace

Aikido is the way of combining forces. It is a Japanese martial art that one could use to defend themselves from injuries and attacks. Its primary goal is to develop...

Aikido: The Japanese Martial Art of Peace

Aikido is the way of combining forces. It is a Japanese martial art that one could use to defend themselves from injuries and attacks. Its primary goal is to develop...

Yakyu

Baseball: The Most Popular Sport in Japan

Baseball (yakyu) is the most popular participatory/spectator sport in Japan.  Almost every Japanese person has played baseball at least once when they were a kid. The highest level of baseball in Japan is...

Baseball: The Most Popular Sport in Japan

Baseball (yakyu) is the most popular participatory/spectator sport in Japan.  Almost every Japanese person has played baseball at least once when they were a kid. The highest level of baseball in Japan is...

Japanese Scenery (I): Mount Fuji

Japanese Scenery (I): Mount Fuji

Mount Fuji (Fujisan) is the biggest and most sacred mountain of Japan. For thousands of years, numerous artwork has depicted its breathtaking beauty. Many shrines and temples were built around...

Japanese Scenery (I): Mount Fuji

Mount Fuji (Fujisan) is the biggest and most sacred mountain of Japan. For thousands of years, numerous artwork has depicted its breathtaking beauty. Many shrines and temples were built around...

Sumo: Japanese Wrestling

Sumo: Japanese Wrestling

Sumo was initially a traditional Japanese Shinto ritual dance praying for harvest and prosperity. Nowadays, it is competitive full-contact wrestling in which two wrestlers compete against each other with their big bodies. With its...

Sumo: Japanese Wrestling

Sumo was initially a traditional Japanese Shinto ritual dance praying for harvest and prosperity. Nowadays, it is competitive full-contact wrestling in which two wrestlers compete against each other with their big bodies. With its...

Kendo: The Japanese Martial Art of Swordsmanship

Kendo: The Japanese Martial Art of Swordsmanship

Name a sport in which two contenders will wear full-body armor and a grilled mask and attack each other with a sword. It sounds like fencing, doesn't it? Actually, the...

Kendo: The Japanese Martial Art of Swordsmanship

Name a sport in which two contenders will wear full-body armor and a grilled mask and attack each other with a sword. It sounds like fencing, doesn't it? Actually, the...