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In his own childhood, Hamill, the middle of seven kids with a Navy-captain father, moved often—learning about samurais and kendo in Japan helped prepare him for lightsabre-wielding—and he was encouraged to be practical, too.
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Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
Among them, chiefly, was his geographer father, who was also a kendo fighter and a proud Japanese.
—Caroline Reilly, Robb Report, 28 May 2025
And that’s not even touching the thousands of years of study across various Asian sword disciplines, including Japanese kenjutsu and kendo, Chinese jianshu, and Korean kumdo.
—Samantha Riedel, Them., 1 May 2025
Mia Yim interfered after with a kendo stick, and even after Piper absconded the stick, Yim got the better of Niven.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
Finn Balor Damian Priest walked out with a Puerto-Rican kendo stick for his street fight with Finn Balor.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
Just as Naomi and Bayley gained the advantage, Nia evened the odds with help from a kendo stick.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
Mia Yim crashed the party with a kendo stick and cleared the ring.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
The coaches are hired by a Japanese government program that sends Japanese experts and money around the world to aid infrastructure and environmental projects as well as to teach cultural exports, like Japanese cooking, language and kendo.
—Jack Nicas Dado Galdieri, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
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Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
Among them, chiefly, was his geographer father, who was also a kendo fighter and a proud Japanese.
—Caroline Reilly, Robb Report, 28 May 2025
And that’s not even touching the thousands of years of study across various Asian sword disciplines, including Japanese kenjutsu and kendo, Chinese jianshu, and Korean kumdo.
—Samantha Riedel, Them., 1 May 2025
Mia Yim interfered after with a kendo stick, and even after Piper absconded the stick, Yim got the better of Niven.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
Finn Balor Damian Priest walked out with a Puerto-Rican kendo stick for his street fight with Finn Balor.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
Just as Naomi and Bayley gained the advantage, Nia evened the odds with help from a kendo stick.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
Mia Yim crashed the party with a kendo stick and cleared the ring.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
The coaches are hired by a Japanese government program that sends Japanese experts and money around the world to aid infrastructure and environmental projects as well as to teach cultural exports, like Japanese cooking, language and kendo.
—Jack Nicas Dado Galdieri, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
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“Kendo.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kendo. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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