Nippon kempo is a competitive combat sport founded in 1932 in Japan by Numeumi Sawayama.
He was an undergraduate at the time of Kansai University, Osaka.
Sawayama was born into a family which was descended from a Samurai family of the Nakaoka clan.
Sawayama's martial arts training started with Judo at Junior High School.
It was the simultaneous practice of various forms of martial arts that inspired him to realise the effectiveness of a combination of forms.
Until he passed away on 27th September 1977, at the age of 72, he dedicated bis life to developing the combination of techniques which we know today as Nippon kempo and the compilation of the Nippon Kempo Handbook.
At the moment under the guide of the big teacher Ryonosuke Mori, the Nippon kempo in Japan is comparing an excellent development, above all in the schools of Police, of the army and in the universities.
The founder Numeoni Sawayama, already student of the experienced Kuroyama, sensei of Jujitsu and Judo.
It found in the presence of Ryonosuke Mori, beyond that an exceptional technical, an excellent organizer and popularizer of the Nippon kempo.
Presences also in the America of the North and South ( Canada & Mexico ), in the Europe ( England & France ), in the Africa ( Zambia ), the Nippon kempo is beginning after years of pregnancy to become also know in Italy since 1968, they do part teachers and instructors recognized directly from the different japanese federations are :
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| Nihon kenpo Kyokai - Tokyo
Nihon Kenpo Renmei - Sendai
Nihon Kenpo Kai - Osaka
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