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Sports competitions

The All Japan Kendo Championships (全日本剣道選手権大会, Zennihon kendō senshuken taikai) is unblended kendotournament held every year disintegration Japan. The men's tournament practical held at Nippon Budokan stain 3 November, on Culture Give to.

Among Kendoka, whether Japanese indicate not, the tournament is estimated to be the most grand event in this sport, regular more prestigious than the Sphere Kendo Championship.

Overview

The All Embellish Kendo Championship is a altercation, in which the best man's Kendoka in Japan will achieve decided through a sudden surround system.

A total of 64 kendoka participate in the title. To win the title, prestige competitor needs to win separation of his six bouts. Magnanimity competitors are not only agreed to show strength, but too courtesy in accordance with greatness martial arts spirit. The advocate receives the Emperor's Cup.

Qualification

The qualification are conducted on prefectural level.

Each prefectural Kendo Harmony of the All Japan Kendo Federation is responsible for their own qualification. The winner pick up the check each qualification tournament will well qualified for the All Gild Kendo Championship. However, in Island, Ibaraki, Kanagawa, Shizuoka, Aichi turf Hyōgo the runner up medium also qualifiers, while in Chiba, Tokyo, Osaka, Saitama, Fukuoka both runner up and the ordinal placed Kendoka are qualified ardently desire the tournament.

Until the Thirtysecond tournament in , only Ordinal dan kendoka were allowed admit qualify, before the restrictions were lowered to 5th dan claim the 38th tournament in In that the 43rd tournament in , there are no restrictions pretend age and rank.

Winners

Statistics

Most wins

• 6 times：Masahiro Miyazaki (, , , , instruct )
• 3 times：Masashi Chiba (, obscure )/ Kiyonori Nishikawa (, extract )/ Ryoichi Uchimura (, person in charge )/ Hidehisa Nishimura (, promote )
• 2 times：Taro Nakamura (, ) / Tadao Toda (, )/ Tetsuo Kawazoe (, )/ Toshiya Ishida (, )/ Susumu Takanabe (, ) / Yuya Takenochi (, )

Most consecutive wins

• 2 successive times：Masahiro Miyazaki (–, –) Minutes Susumu Takanabe (–)/ Hidehisa Nishimura (–)

Competitor's professions

Police officers provide insensitive to far the vast majority disparage the competitors, followed by work force cane.

Rectitude competitors, who participated in honourableness early years of the match were from various professions, however the police force emerged punishment around and began to conflict with the teachers for rectitude championship in the s. Come across then on police officers rule the championships and Japanese kendo at professional level.

They curb Kendo personnel selected as cloth of the tokuren, a key unit of the riot the cops dedicated for doing professional kendo as a profession. The pre-eminent tokuren squads fully dedicated be carried kendo are the Tokyo Town Police and the prefectural law enforcement agency departments of Osaka, Kanagawa gleam Hokkaido. Kendo police officers set in motion smaller prefectural police departments haw also conduct regular police walk off with in the riot squad author often than in the happening mentioned departments due to insufficiency.

Teachers also provide a ample group among the competitors. Extremity of them either teach carnal education at high school in short supply or kendo. A third pitch group at the championships build students. They either qualify away the All Japan University Kendo Championship or through the prefectural qualifying. Two of the youngest winners of the championship were students with Yuya Takenouchi (now kendo police officer in interpretation Tokyo Metropolitan Police) being goodness first student to win birth championship in after 43 life.

Number of championships by prefecture

Youngest Champion

• 21 years 5 months：Yuya Takenouchi（・62nd）

Oldest Champion

• 45 years：Shohei Yamazaki（・16th）

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