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Joseph Svinth
16th June 2000, 12:02
Given the recent heat in the koryu thread, this Japanese article is interesting because it provides approxite numbers for membership in a variety of gendai and koryu arts. For example, 1.5 million dan grade judoka, about 30,000 battodo-jutsu practitioners, about 1,000 sojutsu practitioners.

With numbers like that, none of these organizations seems likely to become extinct this century. (Even at the bottom end, there are only a couple Indian tribes with numbers larger that, and as far as I know all of them plan on being around another 6,000 years.)

Anyway, continue on and you get some nice pictures of karate in Okinawa, swordsmanship in the movies, Gracie jujutsu,handmade kendo bogu, etc.


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Joe
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Eric Baluja
16th June 2000, 13:53
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Joseph Svinth:
Given the recent heat in the koryu thread, this Japanese article...<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Um, the URL, please? http://216.10.1.92/ubb/smile.gif

Thanks!

Eric Baluja

Joseph Svinth
17th June 2000, 01:27
Oops. Teach me to post things at four in the morning. The URL is
http://www.jinjapan.org/nipponia/nipponia10/cont.html

Meanwhile, to do the samurai tour, try
http://www.kiku.com/electric_samurai/cobweb_castle/samurai_tour.html

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Joe
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Neil Hawkins
19th June 2000, 03:37
I have a copy of the original magazine, very interesting.

Neil

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