kendo means the way of the sword. there is no defense in kendo. it's all offense.he jap army thinks in terms of kendo. [screaming] narrator: sumo or japanese wrestling is the act of calmly waiting or stalling for time. than a swift charge to overcome your opponent. the japanese people think in terms of sumo, calm, peaceful, serene, like their volcano mount fuji with violent eruptions in , between. but even as they hammered their homefront into shape, the gentlemen of japan were softening up the rest of the world for their tanaka plan. to every country marked for conquest, they sent their agents army officers posing as , laborers, shop keepers, gardeners. along the coast, officers of the imperial japanese navy masquerading as fishermen piloted tiny boats, sending signals. they fished for pearls off the south pacific islands. they fished for tuna off the coast of california. they made some good hauls. other japanese traveled widely as tourists, photographing the sites of honolulu and seattle. something to show the folks back home. still others went to work in barbers