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58th All Japan Kendo Championships - Wednesday 3rd November, 2010

2010-10-11 автор: Kostya

The 58th All Japan Kendo Championship, to be held on Wednesday 3rd November, 2010, is a little under four weeks away. As usual, the Kendo World team will be there in force keeping you updated on what is going on inside the Nippon Budokan, as 64 of Japan’s top kendoka battle it out to be crowned the 58th All Japan Kendo Champion. We will also be uploading videos of the action to our YouTube channel in the days following the tournament, so please keep an eye out for those.

So, who is there to look out for this time around? Of course there is the two-time winner and current champion, Uchimura Ryōichi of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police (TMP). Looking to make it two in a row, he will first face-off against Hanaki Makoto, a R6-dan police officer from Gifu, who is making his fifth appearance at these championships. It is also Uchimura’s fifth outing at the AJKC and he has an incredible fifty-percent success rate winning the competition two out of four times. He still has, however, a long way to go to equal or beat the great Miyazaki Masahiro who won six championships out of twelve between 1990-2001.

Of course there is Takanabe Susumu, looking to gain his first championship on his eighth attempt. He has previously placed 2nd (2007) and 3rd (2006) but his form leading up to this tournament has been good having earlier this year won both the All Japan Police Kendo Championships (AJPKC) team and individual events on 15th September and 26th August respectively. In the individual competition, Takanabe beat Uchimura in the round of 16.

Also back for the second time is young Hatakenaka Kōsuke (23) of TMP, who two years ago qualified for the AJKC with Wakayama while a fourth-year university student at the mighty Kokushikan University, with whom he won the university team and individual championships that year. He made it to the quarter-finals eventually losing to Wakō Daisuke of Hokkaido, and after graduating Hatakenaka joined TMP. Last year he did not qualify for the AJKC but this year he did so in style winning the Tokyo qualifying tournament on 4th September at the Tokyo Budokan. If he wins his first round match against Mori Yūsuke of Fukuoka, he could meet 2007 champion, Teramoto Shōji of Osaka, providing that he manages to overcome Nakamura Naoki from Ishikawa

There is another student in this year’s AJKC, Osonoi Naoki, a fourth-year student at Tsukuba University in Ibaragi. He has a tricky first round encounter against the hugely experienced R6-dan, Tanaka Takeshi from Kyoto. Despite this only being Tanaka’s second outing at the AJKC, he has placed in, or entered, all the other major competitions as well as being a silver medalist at the World Kendo Championships in Taipei.

As usual, police officers make up the bulk of competitors, 56 out of the 64 this year. There are also two teachers, two company workers, a prison officer, a school worker, a student, and for the fourth year running, doctor Norimoto Shikō from Tottori. The All Japan Kendo Federation (AJKF) has on their championship website compiled some other interesting facts about this year’s competitors. The average age of the competitors is 29.9 years with the youngest being the aforementioned Osonoi Naoki (22). The oldest and highest graded competitor is 38 year old R7-dan Shigetomi Yūichi of Toyama who is making his sixth appearance. The lowest graded competitor is 24 year-old 3-dan Arima Yū, a school worker from Fukui. 25 competitors are making their first appearance while Teramoto is leading the way with his ninth, Takanabe his eighth, and Yoneya Yūichi (Saitama) and Takasaka Yūsuke (Shizuoka) their seventh.

On paper it looks like it will be an interesting tournament with plenty of new faces, and also with some notable absences: 2008 Champion Shōdai Kenji (Kanagawa), 2006 Champion Harada Satoru (Tokyo), Koseki Taro (Tokyo) and Furusawa Tsuneomi (Kumamoto). Keep checking the Kendo World website for updates as the day progresses.

58th AJKC Competitors
The number before the competitor’s names corresponds with the number on the tournament ladder (see below). This other information is: Full-name, Age, Grade, Job

1.Uka Motonori, 35, R6-dan, Police Officer
2.Shikano Mitsunari, 26, 5-dan, Teacher
3.Nishikawa Keisuke, 28, 5-dan, Police Officer
4.Kato Motoki, 34, R6-dan, Police Officer
5.Amishiro Tadakatsu, 30, 5-dan, Police Officer
6.Akao Kazuhiko, 30, 5-dan, Police Officer
7.Norimoto Shikō, 28, 4-dan, Doctor
8.Fujiyama Kōji, 26, 4-dan, Police Officer
9.Teramoto Shōji, 35, R6-dan, Police Officer
10.Nakamura Naoki, 28, 5-dan, Police Officer
11.Mori Yūsuke, 30, 5-dan, Police Officer
12.Hatakenaka Kōsuke, 23, 5-dan, Police Officer
13.Yoneya Yūichi, 34, R6-dan, Police Officer
14.Makiuchi Yoshitake, 31, 5-dan, Police Officer
15.Murata Hironori, 28, 5-dan, Police Officer
16.Tsuchida Keisuke, 29, 5-dan, Police Officer
17.Yasuda Takumi, 25, 4-dan, Company Worker
18.Arakawa Takashi, 33, 5-dan, Police Officer
19.Matsuwaki Shinsuke, 32, 6-dan, Police Officer
20.Shigetomi Yūichi, 38, R7-dan, Police Officer
21.Nakama Yōsuke, 31, 5-dan, Police Officer
22.Kiwada Daiki, 32, 6-dan, Police Officer
23.Sasaki Shōichi, 28, 5-dan, Police Officer
24.Watanabe Tetsuya, 24, 4-dan, Police Officer
25.Sasagawa Teppei, 27, 5-dan, Police Officer
26.Kimura Shigeru, 32, 5-dan, Police Officer
27.Tanaka Takeshi, 35, R6-dan, Police Officer
28.Osonoi Naoki, 22, 4-dan, Student
29.Yamamura Takeru, 24, 4-dan, Police Officer
30.Takanabe Susume, 34, R6-dan, Police Officer
31.Keta Kazuma, 27, 4-dan, Police Officer
32.Sunagawa Osamu, 28, 5-dan, Police Officer
33.Ishizaki Takeshi, 31, 5-dan, Police Officer
34.Yamashita Jō, 30, 5-dan, Police Officer
35.Shimada Takafumi, 27, 5-dan, Police Officer
36.Hayashi Toyohiro, 30, 5-dan, Police Officer
37.Ogawa Tsunato, 30, 5-dan, Police Officer
38.Arima Yū, 24, 3-dan, School Worker
39.Uchimura Ryōichi, 30, 5-dan, Police Officer
40.Hanaki Makoto, 31, R6-dan, Police Officer
41.Shimogawa Ryōsuke, 30, 6-dan, Police Officer
42.Yamaguchi Kōshin, 32, 6-dan, Police Officer
43.Tsuruga Shinpei, 31, 5-dan, Police Officer
44.Ebihara Hidenori, 28, 5-dan, Police Officer
45.Takashima Yūji, 34, R6-dan, Police Officer
46.Ishibashi Taisuke, 34, 6-dan, Police Officer
47.Nishimura Takeshi, 28, 5-dan, Police Officer
48.Koshikawa Kazutaka, 28, 5-dan, Police Officer
49.Shishido Ryoken, 26, 4-dan, Company Worker
50.Omura Ken, 30, 5-dan, Teacher
51.Ishii Hiroyuki, 31, 5-dan, Police Officer
52.Takasaka Yūsuke, 30, 5-dan, Police Officer
53.Shimura Keiichi, 28, 5-dan, Police Officer
54.Harada Kenji, 29, 5-dan, Police Officer
55.Hōjō Tadaomi, 34, R6-dan, Police Officer
56.Matsuoka Makoto, 34, R6-dan, Police Officer
57.Imoto Takeshi, 32, 6-dan, Police Officer
58.Watanabe Kazuteru, 25, 4-dan, Police Officer
59.Kawaki Kazuya, 33, 6-dan, Police Officer
60.Furukawa Kosuke, 31, 6-dan, Police Officer
61.Yokoyama Takeshi, 30, 5-dan, Police Officer
62.Oike Tomoyuki, 28, 4-dan, Prison Officer
63.Satō Norikazu, 31, 5-dan, Police Officer
64.Toyama Hiroki, 36, R6-dan, Police Officer

Источник: kendo-world.com