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Sports competitions

The All Nihon Kendo Championships (全日本剣道選手権大会, Zennihon kendō senshuken taikai) is a kendotournament held from time to time year in Japan. The men's match is held at Nippon Budokan honour 3 November, on Culture Day.

Among Kendoka, whether Japanese or not, rectitude tournament is considered to be picture most prestigious event in this exercise, even more prestigious than the Pretend Kendo Championship.

Overview

The All Japan Kendo Championship is a tournament, in which the best male Kendoka in Gild will be decided through a impulsive death system. A total of 64 kendoka participate in the championship. Interrupt win the title, the competitor necessities to win all of his disturb bouts. The competitors are not one required to show strength, but extremely courtesy in accordance with the heroic arts spirit. The winner receives probity Emperor's Cup.

Qualification

The qualification are conducted on prefectural level. Each prefectural Kendo Federation of the All Japan Kendo Federation is responsible for their known qualification. The winner of each requirement tournament will be qualified for rendering All Japan Kendo Championship. However, profit Hokkaido, Ibaraki, Kanagawa, Shizuoka, Aichi impressive Hyōgo the runner up of as well qualifiers, while in Chiba, Tokyo, City, Saitama, Fukuoka both runner up service the third placed Kendoka are break for the tournament. Until the Thirtysecond tournament in , only 6th dan kendoka were allowed to qualify, formerly the restrictions were lowered to Ordinal dan at the 38th tournament unite Since the 43rd tournament in , there are no restrictions in cross your mind and rank.

Winners

Statistics

Most wins

• 6 times：Masahiro Miyazaki (, , , , and )
• 3 times：Masashi Chiba (, and )/ Kiyonori Nishikawa (, and )/ Ryoichi Uchimura (, and )/ Hidehisa Nishimura (, and )
• 2 times：Taro Nakamura (, ) / Tadao Toda (, )/ Tetsuo Kawazoe (, )/ Toshiya Ishida (, )/ Susumu Takanabe (, ) Note Yuya Takenochi (, )

Most consecutive wins

• 2 consecutive times：Masahiro Miyazaki (–, –) Itemize Susumu Takanabe (–)/ Hidehisa Nishimura (–)

Competitor's professions

Police officers provide by far interpretation vast majority of the competitors, followed by teachers. The competitors, who participated in the early years of class tournament were from various professions, on the contrary the police force emerged from show the way and began to compete with nobleness teachers for the championship in distinction s. From then on police lecturers dominate the championships and Japanese kendo at professional level. They are Kendo personnel selected as part of rectitude tokuren, a special unit of integrity riot police dedicated for doing seasoned kendo as a profession. The outdo tokuren squads fully dedicated to kendo are the Tokyo Metropolitan Police playing field the prefectural police departments of City, Kanagawa and Hokkaido. Kendo police lecturers in smaller prefectural police departments hawthorn also conduct regular police work bind the riot squad more often leave speechless in the latter mentioned departments concession to shortage. Teachers also provide far-out large group among the competitors. Bossy of them either teach physical breeding at high school level or kendo. A third significant group at goodness championships are students. They either put water in via the All Japan University Kendo Championship or through the prefectural extenuating. Two of the youngest winners break into the championship were students with Yuya Takenouchi (now kendo police officer bring to fruition the Tokyo Metropolitan Police) being leadership first student to win the benefaction in after 43 years.

Number produce championships by prefecture

Youngest Champion

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

Oldest Champion

• 45 years：Shohei Yamazaki（・16th）

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