Dec 18th, 2008 This year, Nippon Kan AHAN’s cultural tour program hosted about 1,400 kids from 26 schools from the Denver Metro area. Children’s classes from elementary, middle school and high school came to Nippon Kan headquarters for a morning of Japanese cultural activities. The school buses usually arrive at 10:00 am. The tours begin with a lesson on …
December 15th, 2008 Nippon Kan AHAN supplies one ton of rice every month to two orphanages in Bangladesh. Since this project began in 2006, over 35 tons of rice have been donated by AHAN to help in an ever so small way to feed the children in the orphanages care. This past spring there was a drastic increase in the …
December 4th-11th, 2008 Homma Kancho’s first stop on this trip to Italy was the city of Parma where he taught a seminar hosted by the FESIK (www.fesik.org) Italian Sport Karate Federation and Aikido Insiemehttp://www.aikidoinsieme.it/ instructed by Nehme Michel Sensei and organized by Furlanetto Massimiliano Sensei. The sports complex where the seminar was held was large enough to lay 600 tatami …
This is the Aikido that Homma Kancho wants to teach his students. Being an Uchi Deshi in Nippon Kan, which signify inside students, those not only mean practice Aikido Monday to Sunday each week. The Uchi Deshi Project is more than this. Of course the hours of practice are an essential element in a common day, but I think this …
This year too, Nippon Kan had many good uchideshi students that graduated from the Nippon Kan uchideshi program. There are many kinds of students that come to Nippon Kan to begin their training as full-time live in uchideshi students. Some complain from the start and soon quit and others that make it through the program, but depart the dojo without …
By Arturo Alvarez Kawai December 2008 Right in the middle of the Colombian province of “Valle del Cauca”, west of the Cauca river and east of the mountainous chain of “Los Andes”, lies the city of Cali. Once a common subject of negative headlines worldwide, Cali has fortunately become a more peaceful city, better known for its commercial activities and …
Nov 24th, 2008 Martial art instructors teaching Japanese Martial Arts in the metro Denver and Front Range area were invited to a meeting in November with the Consul General of Japan in Denver. The focus of this meeting was a discussion on the history of the Japanese martial arts in Colorado and to report on the current status of the …
November 22, 2008 The son of the late Morihiro Saito Shihan (Aikikai 9th Dan), Hitohiro Saito Sensei, Founder of Dento Iwama Ryu, Shin Shin Aiki Shuren Kai held his 5th anniversary demonstration at the Tomobe Community Center Grand Hall. The celebration that followed was held at the Tenrenkan Dojo of Iwama. Demonstration were performed by Dento Iwama Ryu instructors and …
Oct 23rd to Oct 29th, 2008 Yasuo Kobayashi Sensei of Aikido Kobayashi Dojo came to the United States in October to teach a three-day seminar at Nippon Kan General Headquarters. Kobayashi Shihan is one of the surviving direct students of the Founder Ueshiba and a living testimonial to the days and teaching of the Founder and of the first generation …
October 16th, 2008 While the Japanese drummers were in Cali, Colombia, Homma Kancho took one day off as project coordinator for the concert tour to answer the requests for him to teach Aikido at the Nippon Budokan. The Aikido instructor at the Nippon Budokan is Jorge Silva who will be coming to Nippon Kan General Headquarters in January to participate …
October 12-19th, 2008 Nippon Kan AHAN coordinated this concert tour to the Colombian cities of Cali and Palmira this October where four performances were held in four different locations in the area. Over 12,000 Colombians, many for the very first time, enjoyed the powerful and dynamic performances of these very talented Japanese drummers. All of the performances were filled to …
Oct 11, 2008 This year was a little different than other years. It has been our tradition for many years to turn the flower beds for winter in downtown Civic Center Park. Less than 18 hours before the project was to begin, we received a call from the Denver Parks Department. Turns out, there was a parade scheduled for the …
Sept 28th and November 20th, 2008 The village of Matsukawa, hometown of the Shinano no Kuni Matsukawa Kyougaku Taiko Drummers is located in the central mountains of Nagano Prefecture on the main island of Honshu, Japan. Homma Kancho paid two visits to the village of Matsukawa this fall as director and coordinator of our drummer’s tour to Colombia in October. …
AHAN Mexico, Take Musu Aiki http://www.mexicoaikido.com.mx/eventos/JORNADA%2008/report%2008.html report by AHAN Mexico Coordinator Fernando Roman Sensei Update from AHAN Mexico.
Sept 19-27, 2008 It has been a long time since Nippon Kan sponsored a tour to Japan. In the old days, Nippon Kan organized at least one tour to Japan every year, sometimes two. In the last seven years, since the creation of AHAN (Aikido Humanitarian Active Network), Homma Kancho’s schedule has become increasingly busy with projects in many different …
