Written by Uchideshi Coordinator Jim Haugen The length of each term of our uchideshi students spends at Nippon Kan can vary depending on an uchideshi’s personal goals and other life commitments they might have such as school, work etc. While the length of an uchideshi stay may vary, while the uchideshi students are living at Nippon Kan they all …
June 1st, 2006 Nippon Kan General Headquarters Cross-Cultural Exchange Program with the village of Higashi Naruse in Akita Prefecture, Japan has been in operation since 1990. Higashi Naruse Village is small remote village in mountainous region of Northern Honshu whose cultural heritage and lifestyle has been perpetuated for centuries. Higashi Naruse village offers a very special opportunity to experience traditional …
May 30th, 2006 This year over 1500 school children from the Greater Metro Area came to Nippon Kan to experience Japanese culture, architecture, history, arts and cuisine through Nippon Kan’s School Field Trip Program. Many schools use this special experience as a tool for Asian studies, and each tour is modified to focus on the age level of the …
May 14th, 2006 Written by AHAN Computer Redistribution Coordinator Erik Moore. AHAN’s Used Computer Redistribution Program sends refurbished computers to countries such as Mongolia, Mexico, Brazil and Nepal to name a few. In Mongolia, over 100 computers have been distributed to schools, monasteries and other humanitarian service organizations. Students, family members, individuals in the Denver community and sometimes businesses …
Written by Luc Leoni Sensei-AHAN Rio de Janeiro I am happy to report that AHAN Brazil and Nippon Kan Brazil are becoming part of CONSEG (The National Security Council of Brazil). Thanks to the help of Walmir Miranda (Nippon Kan Sao Paulo), I have been invited to go to the House of Congressmen in Sao Paulo to be part of …
April 29-30th 2006 Fernando Roman Sensei, Chief Instructor of Mexico Aikido, Take Musu Aiki and AHAN Mexico coordinator, accompanied by ten students traveled to Guatemala for the first AHAN Guatemala fundraising seminar. Fernando Sensei and accompanying students paid for their own travel and lodging expenses in keeping with the AHAN philosophy of the trip. This seminar raised funds to …
Written by Nippon Kan Headquarter website editing staff. AHAN Instructors in support of AHAN, (IISA) are instructors of many different styles and affiliations who support AHAN’s philosophy of service to the community through projects in their own towns and cities. The only requirement for becoming an AHAN IISA Instructor is to be involved with one’s students in any service project …
April 19-23rd, 2006 Written by Emily Busch Enshin Karate, headquartered in Denver has branch dojos all over Japan, indeed all over the world. Founder and Chief Instructor Joko Ninomiya Kancho and Nippon Kan Kancho Gaku Homma are good friends. Homma Kancho first met Ninomiya Kancho early one Sunday morning in a local park in Denver many years ago. Homma …
April 15-23 2006 The current Nippon Kan gardens were designed and the initial foundation put in place over eleven years ago by Homma Kancho in fourteen hours. The heavy earth-moving equipment that had been rented that day was quite expensive and eyes were on the clock knowing that we could not keep the earthmovers one minute more than needed. …
One year ago, Homma Sensei returned from a trip to Nepal in support of A.H.A.N. and shared many fascinating stories of his travels. He vowed to return the following year, and invited his students to join him. As our plane descended on Kathmandu, we got our first glimpse of the Himalayas. Through the windows we saw snow capped Mount Everest. …
I am extremely fortunate to have been able to travel to Nepal and India with Sensei and others from Nippon Kan. Travel, and the dream of future places to visit, occupies a large part of my time since I have an overriding curiosity about other peoples and their way of life. I have gone so far as to wonder whether …
written by Uchideshi coordinator Jim Haugen Three students will be graduating from Nippon Kan’s uchideshi program this term. Joshua Kemery, Hector Cid and Take Matsuo. All three survived to complete a semester in the coldest winter conditions Colorado has had to offer in many years. After graduation Joshua will be returning to college here in Colorado. Hector, who is from …
March 26th, 2006 written by J. Lowrey This year, over 100 students participated in the 11th annual tournament between Nippon Kan and Enshin Karate. BOWLING tournament that is! This bowling tournament is held every year in honor of Joko Ninomiya Shihan’s birthday. This tradition was suggested by Homma Kancho, and has been celebrated in this fashion every since by …
March 19th, 2006 2006 marks the 16th year of meal service to the homeless at the Denver Rescue Mission in Denver and this year of meal service has started out as a busy one. At all of our meal services students regularly volunteer as staff members, but sometimes friends or family guests come down to help as well. At this …
By Simon Shadowlight It’s Saturday morning, March 18th, 2006, when I arrive at the dojo for the White, Yellow, Green Belt Seminar. Already there are a large number of students clustered around the entrance, waiting for the doors to open. I park and, as I approach the group, I make a few jokes with the students who greet me. Is …
