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Last part! (here’s part 3 if you missed it) Read slowly and it lasts longer! J: Okay, we need to start w...

I don’t know about you, but I have tons of metaphors for describing Karate. Most of them are pretty stra...

“You are weird…” The words echoed in my head that night, when I was going to bed, as if some...

I once heard that the only feeling you never forget is embarassment. Or was it humiliation? It’s a thin ...

I don’t know about you, but I love summer evenings. For a few hours, mother nature seems to be telling u...

Masaaki Hatsumi (b. 1931) is the founder and current Soke of the Bujinkan Organization, currently residing and...

This is my edited translation of a lecture entitled “To Those Who Seek Sports, Education & Character...

I remember it like yesterday: It was a beautiful hot August day in Okinawa, and we – around 40 people fr...

Last week we had some “trouble” in class. Let me tell you: It was a normal Wednesday evening and, ...

The life of a typical Okinawan boy (or girl) basically circles around two things: School… and Sports Whe...

The other day I headed to the local Sumo arena, just to look around a little. Usually you will see about ten o...