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Be strong, be gentle, be beautiful. In judo you need strength of mind, body, and soul. I don’t mean beauty in the external sense. A …
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Read Part 1 >> All Issei to a maximum security prison “After Pearl Harbor, the newspapers from the U.S. wrote about how the Japanese were ‘cruel people’. …
>> Part 1The summer after 4th grade, 1971, it was somehow decided that my older sister, my younger brother and I would become members of …
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Whenever I go back to Japan these days, it is really with more of a sense of mission, reevaluating my relationship with Japan and my …
Japanese martial arts such as judo and kendo have a strong presence in the Japanese American community. As a youngster, my dad took me to …
Over 35 years ago, solo performance artist Dan Kwong remembers the moment martial arts legend Bruce Lee entered his life, and changed him forever. It …
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Like returning home after a long journey, stepping onto the tatami at the dojo is one of the most relaxing moments I look forward to …
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