Sept 19-27, 2008 In September, five people from Nippon Kan and 10 people from AHAN Mexico, accompanied Homma Kancho to Japan to attend the 40th Year Anniversary Celebration of the Aikido Kobayashi Dojo. (Founded by Yasuo Kobayashi, Dojo Cho http://www.cup.com/kobayashi-dojo/english/index.html ). The first event attended was a special practice held at the Meiji University Aikido Club, instructed by Kobayashi Shihan. …
October 15th, 2008 In preparation for Kobayashi Shihan’s arrival at Nippon Kan, dojo student volunteers busied themselves, tidying up the grounds and doing maintenance work on the dojo mat. With such a large dojo facility, Nippon Kan could not survive without the support of students who help in many different ways to keep the dojo running smoothly. We thank everyone …
August 23rd, 2008 Bi-annually, promotions are celebrated for students in Nippon Kan’s Youth Program. This past August, 32 of Nippon Kan’s youth program members received promotion certificates. Nippon Kan does not hold testing; all of our youth program promotions are based on instructor evaluation. Emily Busch, Nippon Kan AHAN International Project Director explained to youth program members, observing families and …
Sept 6th, 2008 Written by Brian Grabowski A troupe of young Korean artists, The Korean Traditional Arts Performers from Los Angeles performed at the Denver Center for Performing Arts this past September 6th. Over 2,500 people came to this performance of traditional Korean theater and musical arts. Homma Kancho met the troupe coordinator by accident, but soon found through conversation …
August 5th, 2008 Last spring Homma Kancho and Nippon Kan AHAN General Headquarters organized a fundraising campaign to supply practice uniforms (keiko gi) for children from low income families in Cali, Colombia. In this campaign, pounds of fresh Colombian coffee beans brought back from Colombia by Homma Kancho on his first visit to Cali, were given to donators as gifts …
August and September 2008 Nippon Kan General Headquarters has made many friends through AHAN all over the world, and has a special relationship with AHAN Mindanao Coordinator Ava Yancha and her students in Illigan City, Mindanao Island in the Philippines. Ava has been especially active in the development of peace and human resource development through the Aikido she shares with …
Nippon Kan receives correspondence by mail and email from all over the world most every day. Some of the letters we receive are from other dojos who have been inspired by AHAN to start community service projects in their own communities. At Nippon Kan we are always delighted to receive these kinds of reports since one of the biggest goals …
July 6th-9th, 2008 Written by Maji Al-Sarkar AHAN Bangladesh Coordinator Homma Sensei on his last visit to Bangladesh advised me to undergo training at Nippon Kan Nepal Aikido Dojo at Kathmandu under Mr. Mariusz, a visiting trainer from Nippon Kan HQ, Denver, u.s.a. I flew off from Zia Intl. Airport, Dhaka by Biman Bngladesh Airlines on 3rd July, 08, for …
June 25th -July 1st, 2008 At the invitation of a personal friend, Homma Kancho returned to Iran for his second visit this past June. The following is Homma Kancho’s report about his trip to Iran, 2008. Such a coincidence. I had already scheduled a trip to Iran for personal reasons, when I received word from Kobayashi Dojo, Yasuo Kobayashi Shihan …
Yoshikada Wada Sensei, Instructor of Aikido in East Timor since 2005 sent the following reports on current activities in East Timor since Homma Kancho’s last visit in February, 2008. June 13th, 2008 May 20th was Independence Day in East Timor. During the month of May, many sports competitions and demonstrations were held to celebrate. Our Aikido students also wanted to …
June 7-11, 2008 After spending a few days in Laos, Homma Kancho flew at the invitation of a consortium of Aikidoka to teach Aikido at a global summit in Japan, June 7th-11th, 2008. Enthusiastic about Homma Kancho’s teaching and AHAN activities around the world, Homma Kancho was invited as a guest instructor to this summit of Aikikai and independent instructors, …
June 7th, 2008 Nippon Kan has held an annual spring volunteer project for the last 17 consecutive years. The origin of this project you might assume was altruistic in nature. In actuality, Homma Kancho initiated this project for personal reasons. Previously, Homma Kancho’s birthday in May was always celebrated with a large party. There were a few memorable parties that …
July 2nd -9th, 2008 Alexandria Seminar Four hours by car north of Egypt’s capital city of Cairo is Alexandria; the second-largest Mediterranean city n Egypt. Alexandria is famous as the home of Cleopatra and the history of this city goes back to 334 BC. My name is Gawad Adham, and I am the instructor of Alexandria Aikido here in Alexandria. …
June 2-6th 2008 Homma Kancho stopped by Laos for a short visit on a fact-finding mission for AHAN and to discuss future plans for teaching Aikido to the Laotian Military. He began his visit in the capital city of Vientiane where he met with Senior JICA Instructor Kudo Sensei who teaches Aikido to local civilian in Vientiene. The purpose of …
Nippon Kan and AHAN Headquarters in Denver have worked for the last year to supply monthly deliveries of one ton of rice per month to be distributed to the Dharmarajika Orphanage for Boys and the Madrasa Orphange for Girls in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Every month the rice is purchased and the deliveries coordinated by AHAN Bangladesh Coordinator Maji Sarkar who sends …
