“Budo no Kuni” (武道の国) or “Land of Martial Arts” is a video series from BAB Japan, “Hiden” Magazine and BudoJapan.com website. In it, “Hiden” writer Grigoris A. Miliaresis interviews non-Japanese who have lived/are still living in Japan and have gained unique insights in its martial culture.

This third episode of the series, features Earl Hartman, a kyudo 6th dan and longtime practitioner of Shinto Muso-ryu Jo as he recounts the story of a relationship with Japan and the martial arts going back over half a century!

For more about/from Earl Hartman:
https://sites.google.com/site/seishinkankyudo/home (his kyudo dojo in Oakland, California)
https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo6512379.html
(the page of “Shots In the Dark”, the book mentioned in the video that Earl Hartman has translated)