COURTESY OF NISHITOKYO CITYThousands of swords and other weapons ... the weapons are from the World War II era and likely belonged to the Japanese Imperial Army. Grenades, bullets and cannonballs ...

Garten’s swordsmanship program, called Winchester Battodo, teaches a style called Nakamura Ryu Battodo. The classes began ...

Tomesuke Umeki, an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army, carried the sword with him when he left Takaharu around 1941 for a Japanese-controlled territory during the Pacific War. He traveled from ...