Cassie here. Here’s a great example of local kids doing amazing things in sports. Kyushu Gakuin’s high school and junior high school teams both won the national tournaments in August. They visited the prefecture office and met with the governor.
I put the article through translation software. It turned out pretty good. However the kendo coach’s name is Komeda not Yoneda. There are several ways to read his kanji.
On the 12th, the boys’ kendo clubs of Kyushu Gakuin High School and junior high school visited the prefectural office to report that they had each won the national tournament in August.
Members of the boys’ kendo club of Kyushu Gakuin attended the victory report meeting. The high school team won the Inter-High team championship in August, held in Oita Prefecture, for the second year in a row and their 11th victory. The junior high school team also won the team championship in the National Junior High School Kendo Championship in Niigata Prefecture in August, for the first time in two years.
Upon hearing the victory report, Governor Kimura said, “It is the pride of the people of Kumamoto that we have been able to make the name of Kendo Kingdom known throughout the country.”
Captain Chikamoto Tadasuke, third year student, Kyushu Gakuin High School Boys Kendo Club
“Before the Inter-High, we lost in the Gyokuryu-ki tournament in Fukuoka, which was disappointing, so I think we used that experience as motivation to work hard and win.”
Director and coach, Yoneda, Kyushu Gakuin Boys Kendo Club
“As for the high school students, I think they were able to overcome many obstacles while understanding their own position and of course putting in effort, which led to this result. I also think that the junior high school students were able to show more than their strengths in this tournament.”
