The December 2008 edition of Kendo World. Original 112 A4 pages.
Contents: Sumi Masatake sensei's Kendo That Cultivates People, Know your Opponent, Chiba Masashi (Tokyo MPD kendo Shihan, Hanshi 8-dan), Tozando Bōgu, Hanshi Says - Okushima Yoshio Hanshi 8-dan, Nuts 'n' Bolts of Kendo - What is Seme?, Reidan-jichi - The Technical Theory of Kendo, At The Sharp End, Practical Kendo comprehensive Q&A, Kendo Clinic - Trigger Finger and Trigger Thumb, Unlocking Japan - Expats and Mates, Auckland Kendo Club relocation, Democratising Kendo Instruction Through Institutional Agreements, 7th South American Kendo Championship, Konishi Sensei, A Duffle Bag and a Bōgu Bag - Diametrically Supposed, Luan Jujie's Olympic Fencing Dream, The Role of Confucianism and Swordsmanship in the Bakumatsu Period, Ideas and History of the Japanese Sword part 2 - Ancient Japan and the Sword, Forging Japanese Swords - Twenty Years on the Swordsmith's Path Part 1, Principles of the Sword, Reflections on the Katana - The Beauty and the Brutality, From Korea - The Internationalisation of Kumdo Part 2, International Naginata Seminar 2008 in New Zealand, Naginata Technical Special - Shikake-Oji Gohon-me, 16th All Japan Jukendo Championship, Bushido - The Past and Present - Part 4, Bushido - The Zen Calligraphy of Katsu Kaishu and Takahashi Deishu, Tales of the Samurai Chapter 7 - The Story of Kimura Shigenari, Waseda University Kendo Club and Takano Sasaburo Sensei, sWords of Wisdom - Ken-tai Ichinyo (offence and defence are inseparably linked), Shinai Sagas - Some Invisible Someone, Willem Gerard Ferdinand Bekink, Bookmark - Japanese Sword Fighting Secrets of the Samurai.