{"id":2362,"date":"2026-05-17T07:31:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T07:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/?p=2362"},"modified":"2026-05-17T07:32:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T07:32:31","slug":"the-39th-general-meeting-of-the-all-japan-sword-traders-association-may-17-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/2026\/05\/17\/the-39th-general-meeting-of-the-all-japan-sword-traders-association-may-17-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"The 39th General Meeting of the All Japan Sword Dealers Association   May 17, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5651-1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2361\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5651-1-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5651-1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5651-1.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"168\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">The All Japan Sword Dealers Association<\/span><\/span> held its 39th General Meeting on May 17 at the <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Tokyo Art Club<\/span><\/span>. The association currently has 151 members. Under the new leadership of Mr. Yoshio Iida of Iida K\u014dend\u014d, who was elected chairman during last year\u2019s board member election, the business report for fiscal year 2025 and the business plan for fiscal year 2026 were approved. I sincerely hope that the sword industry will continue to develop in a healthy manner and that sword dealers throughout Japan will prosper in their businesses. As for myself, I was relieved to successfully fulfill my role as master of ceremonies and finally be free from the tension of the occasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The All Japan Sword Dealers Association held its 39th General Meeting on May 17 at the Tokyo Art Club. The association currently has 151 members. Under the new leadership of Mr. Yoshio Iida of Iida K\u014dend\u014d, who was elected chairman during last year\u2019s board member election, the business report for fiscal year 2025 and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/2026\/05\/17\/the-39th-general-meeting-of-the-all-japan-sword-traders-association-may-17-2026\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The 39th General Meeting of the All Japan Sword Dealers Association   May 17, 2026<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2362"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2366,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions\/2366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}