Dai Nippon Butoku Kai
The Dai Nippon Butoku Kai was Japan’s leading national martial-arts organisation from 1895 until its dissolution in 1946.
Budo
Nippon Budokan
Nippon Budokan is a landmark arena in central Tokyo, opened for Olympic judo in 1964 and used for budo events, education, ceremonies, and concerts.
Japanese Martial Arts
Japanese martial arts encompass classical combat traditions, modern budō, Okinawan karate, weapons practice, grappling, competition, and systems of physical and ethical education.
Morihei Ueshiba
Morihei Ueshiba founded Aikido by transforming Daitō-ryū-derived technique through decades of teaching, religious thought, and institutional change.
Judo
Judo is a modern Japanese martial art and educational practice built around throws, groundwork, kata, randori, safe falling, and mutual benefit.
Aikido
Aikido is Morihei Ueshiba’s modern Japanese budō, historically rooted in Daitō-ryū yet institutionally and philosophically distinct from aiki-jūjutsu.
Karate
Karate is an Okinawan striking art shaped through kata, kihon, kumite, school lineages, modern education, competition, and worldwide transmission.