Members of the University of Wisconsin Kendo Club regularly engage in sparring with hefty wooden sticks in the name of enjoyment and discipline. Founded in 1989 by kendo professor Minoru Kiyota, the ...

You're no stranger to secret societies, codes of honor, and ancient ways of doing things. But there's one thing your underground organizations have always lacked: swords. Until now... Which is why we ...

What a difference a couple of generations can make. On Jan. 13, 1963, this magazine (then known as the Sunday Pictorial) ran a four-page story and photos on kendo, the ancient Japanese martial art of ...

Mioko is a 5ft 3in, softly spoken Japanese girl. But cut her loose with a shinai (a bamboo representation of a sword) and she becomes a compact fighting machine with all the moves of her Samurai ...

This week I went along to a Kendo demonstration session in the neighbourhood centre to see what exactly the class will have to offer. The art of Kendo is rooted in ancient Japan where, during the ...