2012-№1(34) Article 4

S.B. Petrygin

Martial arts, moral development, and physical education in Japan. p. 33-37

UDC 7А

In Japan martial arts have always been more than a tool to develop fighting prowess. They have long been recognized as a means to moral and physical perfection. The paper attempts to reconstruct the history of traditional Japanese martial arts as a system of moral development through physical education.

martial arts, budo, moral development, physical education, society.

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