Jukendo Training
Here are some pictures I took while deployed to Japan for the Yama Sakura exercise with I Corps, Camp Itami, Japan, February 2007. I worked with Japanese Soldiers from the Middle Army, Japanese Ground Self Defense Force. Almost every day I had the honor of observing Japanese soldiers practicing Jukendo, a distinct and pure military art, on the camp tennis court and on rooftops of buildings on the camp. Jukendo is the military system of bayonet fighting.