The new Tom Cruise movie "The Last Samurai" has renewed interest in the warriors of feudal Japan as mythologized in such films as "The Seven Samurai." But students of Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto Ryu, ...

Chad Wombles, a 46-year-old firefighter, was chatting with a police officer friend when he was suddenly attacked by a sword-wielding stranger.

Andrey Kagan knows people gawk at him. He’s aware that racing around public parks on a one-wheeled electric skateboard — while picking up trash using a samurai sword — is bizarre. But look, he says, ...