Word: kenjitsu
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...Kanda claims to be baffled by all the attention his city is getting in the run-up to the expo. "We are just doing what we have always been doing," he says with the humility of a people known throughout Japan as kenjitsu (rock solid). Compared with residents of Osaka, where personal and corporate bankruptcy rates are among the highest in the nation, Nagoyans are frugal. Local companies resisted making foolish bets during the bubble years, hence avoiding most of the damage from the crash. To this day, Nagoya companies sport some of the lowest debt loads in the country...
Club members explain that there are four main styles of Shintaido: Open-Hand Shintaido, Bohjitsu, Kenjitsu and Shintaido-Karate. Open-Hand Shintaido is pure Shintaido without the use of a weapon, while both Bohjitsu and Kenjitsu both involve the use of a wooden sword or of a staff respectively. Shintaido-Karate combines Shintaido and Karate...
...weapon in Bohjitsu and Kenjitsu is not aggressive, says David E. Franklin '87, vice president of the club, adding that the weapon should only serve as an auxiliary to expression...