Corruption has been revealed in the Japanese sport of kendo, as the All Japan Kendo Federation said Friday that people taking promotional exams had often been paying money to their examiners in order to win their approval.
Corruption has been revealed in the Japanese sport of kendo, as the All Japan Kendo Federation said Friday that people taking promotional exams had often been paying money to their examiners in order to win their approval.
The federation said it had found a case of a person paying a sum of 1 million yen to seven examiners of iaido, a type of martial art based on the drawing of a sword, and another case in which someone paid 2 million yen to examiners through an instructor in 2016. Neither of them passed the exams. The revelation comes after a man recently filed a complaint with a committee of the Cabinet Office, alleging he was asked by multiple examiners to pay a total of 6.
