I had a great time visiting some of my teachers in Japan recently, and wrote a blog post about it. I find training in Japan to be so different from what people expect think it is that there is little relation. Now the one caveat is that I'm writing about koryu budo here, and not gendai budo, where the training has been heavily influenced by the nuttiness of the militarist era of the 20th century.
This is also the chance for the senior guys around here to slap me up side the head and tell me I have it all wrong. (Hi guys!)
http://budobum.blogspot.com/2013/10/...ou-see-in.html