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The American occupation authorities in postwar
Japan banned both swords and martial arts instruction. I don't have an
authoritative cite for the latter but have seen it claimed in what I believe is
a credible source. The story is that martial arts schools simply went
underground. The old-style schools had been built around the
traditional model of a tiny number of students living in
their master's house and acting as his servants while receiving
instruction, and apparently this was done discretely until the ban went out
of effect.
It wouldn't surprise me if Japanese martial
arts instructors still have to register their schools with the
goverment, because everything in Japan seems to require some kind
of official stamp to be "legitimate."
Norman Heath
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