Miyazaki wins fifth all-Japan kendo crown

Kanagawa police officer Masahiro Miyazaki is all smiles after claiming an unprecedented fifth kendo national championship crown Nov. 3 with a victory over Osaka rival Yoshihisa Eto at the Nippon Budokan. Miyazaki, a holder of the seventh dan, beat sixth-dan Eto with a strike to the head to regain the title he let slip away last year. ==Kyodo

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