SPECIAL NEWS FROM JAPAN

With AKIHO Europe’s 11th European Hozonkai Championship just around the corner—only 8 days left before it takes place and only 2 days to enter—news worth sharing has reached us from AKIHO Headquarters in Japan. Whereas normally AKIHO’s Shibuten and Kurabuten events are to follow a format that uses a combined Seiken class, due to entry numbers special permission has been granted to split this year’s adult entries up into Seiken A and B, similarly to as done at AKIHO’s biannual Honbuten (Headquarters Exhibition) in Japan.