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Bushido, the Way of the Warrior, was cultivated in the 7th century by the Samurai of Japan, and is carried on to modern times through the practice of traditional martial arts found around the globe. We can see the universality of Bushido by its adaptation in nearly every continent and in hundreds of cultures, spread by the martial arts. This book will examine several marital arts disciplines, and find within them the Bushido codes and conduct that have survived the passage of time. One particular samurai family will be studied, and we will see how their art and bushido codes have been spread throughout the world.

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Master Grant A. Miller began studying martial arts at the age of 9 and has spent his life devoted to them. His first discipline, introduced to him by his foster family, was the Chinese art of Kung Fu, specifically it was the Eagle Claw style. While in college, he studied Tang So Do. Master Miller studied abroad in Japan at Kansai Gaikokugo Daigaku University, earning a certificate of proficiency in the language for both reading and writing. During and after college, including his time abroad, he studied for various periods JuJutsu, Aikido, Judo and Kickboxing. In 1994 he began his study of Shotokan karate, and continues to do so today. He spent 12 years working for a Japanese company both in the United States and Japan, and while his professional focus is information technology and systems, his fluency in the language enabled him to act as an interpreter on numerous occasions. Master Miller is fluent in Japanese, and can speak with varying degrees of proficiency in Cantonese, French and German. He was a contributing author on two books on Microsoft Windows server technologies, and worked as a technical editor on several others, as well as being a translator on a book dealing with a French family during WWII. He currently owns a karate school in Pittsburgh, PA, and oversees the King Cobra Karate Association's branch schools located outside of Erie, PA.

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