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    Default Hello from Japan

    Hello. I am new to this forum and wanted to say hello.

    I am Judoka and I am currently 1-kyu and I will challenge for the shodan as soon as possible. I wish to contribute to especially the Judo part of this forum. I lived in Europe many years and I did wrestling, but I decided to move home and now I live back in Japan.

    Nice to meet you everyone!!!

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    Welcome to E-Budo, Yamada-san.
    Yours in Budo,
    ---Brian---

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    Thank you very much, Brian san!

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    Welcome to E-Budo! We hope you will find the forum archives and current discussions to be useful and interesting.
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    Welcome Yamada!
    Chris Thomas

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    Hello Yamada san!!!!!!!

    Nice to have you on this board. Where did you live in Europe? I wish I could do exactly as you did, spending several years in the Land of the rising sun.

    Looking forward to reading from you.


    Very sincerely yours
    Deception is one of Kenpo´s best technique.

    Väck ej björnen som sover


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    Hello there everyone and thanks for a warm welcome!

    Raff: I mainly lived in Scandinavia, Finland, but also Sweden so I speak those languages fairly well. "Väck ej björnen som sover" is a nice proverb indeed. ^^

    Yes, it was time to move back home I felt. Got a good job opportunity so I felt that it was a good thing to do, and since I have my family here it actually feels good to be "home".

    Thanks!

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    Oh nice, I lived and worked in Sweden as well.

    Väck ej björnen som sover is a very old swedish proverb and has a lot of wisdom in it.

    Two years ago in tokyo, I was out with some friends in Ikebukuro. I was talking in swedish to a Finnish guy. All of a sudden, a Japanese gentlemen came to us and asked "pratar du svenska?"

    This was amazing, the Japanese gentleman could actually speak swedish but when I asked him, he had never been there which is even more amazing.

    Gambatte!!!!!
    Deception is one of Kenpo´s best technique.

    Väck ej björnen som sover


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    Nice to hear!

    It is always nice to meet people in a far away place who can speak the same language. In Sweden I met mostly Japanese speakers in Stockholm but a fair share of tourists visit Kansai and especially Kyoto when they come here, and on a few occasions I have met Swedes (mostly from Göteborg for some reason haha).

    Kul med svensktalare här på forumet. See you around and thanks for the warm welcome!

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    Vad trevligt!!!! Jag bodde precis i Göteborg på 90 talet. Jag var språklärare på den tiden.

    Happy training Yamada san, I´m sure we will have some very informative information about Budo and Bujutsu.

    Very sincerely yours.
    Deception is one of Kenpo´s best technique.

    Väck ej björnen som sover


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    Tack Raphael san. Skicka ett PM om du känner för att prata mer!

    Thank you so much. I really like the atmosphere around here.

    Best greetings / Yamada

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    Hello,

    I am one of two forum administrators and I have lived in Hiroshima since 1980.

    これからもよろしくお願い致します。
    Peter Goldsbury,
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    Hello there Peter san!

    That's amazing!

    どうもありがとうございます。このサイトから良い情報が沢山得られそうで楽しみです。こちらこそ、どうぞ宜しくお願いいたします。

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    Welcome Yamada-san

    I am the other of two administrators and I live in Sweden, så jag pratar förstås svenska.
    When I am in Japan I of course often go to the Shorinji Kempo hombu in Tadotsu, Kagawa ken, but I have my teacher in Kyoto, so there is where I have spent most of the time in Japan.

    Nice to have you as a member of the forum. 宜しくお願いいたします。
    Anders Pettersson
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    Anders san, thank you very much!

    I see, are you a Värmlänning then? Hehe. Nice to hear you have personal connections in Japan as well!

    How often do you visit Japan? Kyoto is not very far from here.

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