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In Japan, during the month of November, many kendo, iaido and jodo grading exams are conducted by the All Japan Kendo Federation and prefecture affiliates.<\/p>\n
This month many senior graded Australian Kendo Renmei (AKR) members faced the challenge to be tested for their next dan level or for the Shogo levlels of Renshi and Kyoshi.<\/p>\n
Happily, many were successful and the AKR has had a most unusual and exciting week!<\/p>\n
Warm congratulations to all applicants, whether successful or not for\u00a0never giving\u00a0up and working extremely hard to meet the the challenge.<\/p>\n
We congratulate all the successful members on their achievement.<\/p>\n
EXAM RESULTS – KENDO<\/strong><\/p>\n Mr. Peter Szwarcbord, Kendo 7 Dan (Vic).\u00a0Awarded Kendo\u00a0Kyoshi\u00a0in Tokyo on 23 November.<\/p>\n Mr. Takashi Itakura (Qld) was awarded Kendo 7 Dan in Tokyo on 24 November.<\/p>\n Mr. Stuart Burke, Formerly of NSW., was awarded Kendo 7 Dan in Tokyo on 24 November.<\/p>\n Mr. Ben Sheppard (Vic), was awarded Kendo 6\u00a0Dan in Tokyo on 25 November.<\/p>\n Ms. Hayami Aboutaleb, Kendo 6\u00a0Dan (SA) was awarded Kendo Renshi in\u00a0Tokyo on 23\u00a0November.<\/p>\n Mrs. Hiroko Tsukadaira (QLD), Kendo 6\u00a0Dan was awarded Kendo Renshi in\u00a0Tokyo on 23\u00a0November.<\/p>\n Mr. Andrew van Hamond\u00a0(NSW) was awarded Kendo 5\u00a0Dan in Tokyo on 19 November.<\/p>\n EXAM RESULTS – IAIDO<\/strong><\/p>\n Mr.\u00a0Ramon Lawrence (WA)\u00a0was awarded \u00a0Iaido 7 Dan in Tokyo on 19 November 2016.<\/p>\n Ms. Claire Chan, Iaido 6 Dan (Vic) was awarded Iaido Renshi in\u00a0Tokyo on 23\u00a0November.<\/p>\n Mr. David Kolb (Qld)\u00a0was awarded Iaido 6\u00a0Dan in Tokyo on 19 November 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" UPDATED with a complete set of results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,36,28,34,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3899"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3959,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899\/revisions\/3959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}