NISEI YOSHU RYU KEMPO IS A MODALITY OF THE ORIGINAL SYSTEM OF KEMPO AS IT WAS PRACTICE IN THE RYUKYU ISLANDS, It combines both old and new elements to offer a more balance approach to the martial arts of Okinawa and Japan. THIS BOOK IS AN INTRODUCTION TO THIS METHOD OF OKINAWAN KEMPO.

The lineage of Nisei Yoshu Ryu Kempo extends back to Okinawa and Japan, Back to the mother system, Chito Ryu. This book covers the requirements for 6th kyu and 5th kyu.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Fighting Spirit of Japan" by E. J. Harrison. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

This study argues that in Japanese popular cinema the 'tragic hero' narrative is an archetypal plot-structure upon which male genres, such as the war-retro and yakuza films are based. Two central questions in relation to these post-war Japanese film genres and historical consciousness are addressed: What is the relationship between history, myth and memory? And how are individual subjectivities defined in relation to the past? The book examines the role of the 'tragic hero' narrative as a figurative structure through which the Japanese people could interpret the events of World War II and defeat, offering spectators an avenue of exculpation from a foreign-imposed sense of guilt. Also considered is the fantasy world of the nagare-mono (drifter) or yakuza film. It is suggested that one of the reasons for the great popularity of these films in the 1960s and 1970s lay in their ability to offer men meanings that could help them understand the contradictions between the reality of their everyday experiences and the ideological construction of masculinity.

Deploys martial arts as a lens to analyze performance, power, and identity within the evolving fusion of Black and Asian American cultures in history and media.

The Kanabō also known as Tetsubō (metallic staff) was a studded wooden club used in feudal Japan. This book is an introduction to the methodology and the techniques of this weapon.