Who practice Japanese martial arts?
Shurikenjutsu Shurikenjutsu (手裏剣術 ) is a general term describing the traditional Japanese martial arts of throwing "shuriken", which are small, hand-held weapons used primarily by the Samurai in feudal Japan, such as metal spikes "bō shuriken", circular plates of metal known as "hira shuriken", and knives ("tantō").
Tadashi Abe Tadashi Abe (阿部 正 , Abe Tadashi ) (1926 – November 23, 1984) was the first aikido master to live and teach in the west. He began training in Aikido in Osaka in 1942 and went on to train directly under the founder of the art Morihei Ueshiba at Iwama as an uchideshi during World War II. In 1952, after graduating in law from Waseda University, he moved to France where he studied law at the Sorbonne and taught aikido as a 6th Dan representative of Aikikai Honbu. After seven years he returned to Japan. By 1964 he was a 7th dan black belt in aikido.