{"id":7212,"date":"2025-05-20T02:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T15:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/?p=7212"},"modified":"2025-05-20T02:40:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T15:40:30","slug":"20wkc-kendo-coaching-and-management-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/?p=7212","title":{"rendered":"20WKC Kendo Coaching and Management Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To the Australian Kendo Community,<\/p>\n<p>As we prepare for the 20th World Kendo Championships (WKC) in 2027, we are pleased to announce the Coaching and Management Team that will lead the Australian National Team on its path forward.<\/p>\n<p>Head Coach: Mitsugu Fukuda<\/p>\n<p>Men\u2019s Coach: Kazuya Kimura<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s Coach: Vivian Yung<\/p>\n<p>Support Coach: Stuart Burke<\/p>\n<p>High Performance Coach: Alex Kambara<\/p>\n<p>Technical Advisor: Roberto Kishikawa<\/p>\n<p>Team Manager: Ken Okamoto<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Manager: Tomoe Kawami<\/p>\n<p>This outstanding group brings a wealth of Kendo knowledge, experience, and passion. Together, they are fully committed to the growth and success of the Australian team on the world stage.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to building a strong and united team in collaboration with practitioners and supporters across the country. Your continued support and encouragement are sincerely appreciated as we take on this exciting journey toward 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Kind regards,<\/p>\n<p>Mitsugu Fukuda<\/p>\n<p>Head Coach<\/p>\n<p>WKC 2027<\/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>To the Australian Kendo Community, As we prepare for the 20th World Kendo Championships (WKC) in 2027, we are pleased to announce the Coaching and Management Team that will lead &#8230;<!-- 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":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7212"}],"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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7214,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7212\/revisions\/7214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}