{"id":4644,"date":"2018-12-03T20:35:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T09:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/?p=4644"},"modified":"2020-03-11T19:56:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T08:56:28","slug":"exam-news-from-japan-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/?p=4644","title":{"rendered":"Exam News from Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Japan, during the month of November, many exams for kendo, iaido and jodo are conducted by the All Japan Kendo Federation (AJKF) and prefecture affiliates.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the past month, many senior graded Australian Kendo Renmei (AKR) members faced the challenge to be tested for the Shogo levels of Renshi and Kyoshi or their next dan level.<\/p>\n<p>Happily, some were successful.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all applicants, whether successful or not, for never giving up and working extremely hard to meet the next challenge.<\/p>\n<p>We congratulate the successful members, listed below on their recent achievement.<\/p>\n<p><b>SHOGO<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Kyoshi &#8211; KENDO<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr. Takashi Itakura, Kendo 7 Dan (Qld) was awarded Kendo Kyoshi in Tokyo by the AJKF on 27 November 2018.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Renshi &#8211; KENDO<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mr. Dong Yeol Lim, Kendo 6 Dan (WA) was awarded Kendo Renshi in Tokyo by the AJKF on 27 November 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Benjamin Sheppard, Kendo 6 Dan (VIC) was awarded Kendo Renshi in Tokyo by the AJKF on 27 November 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Daniel Strenger, Kendo 6 Dan (NSW) was awarded Kendo Renshi in Tokyo by the AJKF on 27 November 2018.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Renshi &#8211; IAIDO<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mr. Marcus Lee-Steere, Iaido 6 Dan (VIC) was awarded Iaido Renshi in Tokyo by the AJKF on 27 November 2018.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Renshi &#8211; JODO<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mr. Russell Lawrence, Jodo 6 Dan (WA) was awarded Jodo Renshi in Tokyo by the AJKF on 27 November 2018.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>EXAM RESULTS \u2013 KENDO<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mr. Noriyuki Tamura, (QLD), was awarded Kendo 6 Dan in Nagoya by the AJKF on 18 November 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Kate Sylvester, (VIC), was awarded Kendo 6 Dan in Tokyo by the AJKF on 25 November 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Ms. Noriko Matsumoto, (VIC), was awarded Kendo 6 Dan in Tokyo by the AJKF on 25 November 2018.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Japan, during the month of November, many exams for kendo, iaido and jodo are conducted by the All Japan Kendo Federation (AJKF) and prefecture affiliates.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,38,36,28,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iaido","category-jodo","category-kendo","category-news","category-overseas-exams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4644"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5349,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4644\/revisions\/5349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}