Kendo Competitions in Taiwan

This is the school championship. The 50th edition, academic year 114, was held on 28–29 March 2026 at the Taipei Gymnasium, organised by ROCKA and broadcast by the Sports Administration production team. Earlier editions show the pipeline clearly: university scoring matches have been won by clubs such as Tamkang, Taipei City University, Fu Jen, and National Taiwan Normal University; high-school brackets include Taichung Municipal Dongshan High School and Taichung Municipal Taichung Harbor Senior High School. The event is also designated for sports-talent school admission, which is why families treat it as more than a club taikai. Both days of the 2026 broadcast run for many hours, so they are linked under this page instead of embedded.

The National Age-Group Championships covers elementary, junior-high, high-school, and adult divisions. ROCKA posted the 114 results on 28 September 2025 and the 115 results on 27 September 2026. The full-day video linked below is the 114 broadcast. The same bulletin carries university invitationals, the Taoyuan Speaker’s Cup and Mayor’s Cup, Hsinchu and Chiayi cups, and kendo at the National Games. The first Presidential Cup has a results table posted on 23 August 2026; that date is the notice, not a claim about the match day. World Championship trials are published as a preliminary and a final on the same site.

ROCKA has long organised a National Chung Cheng Cup. Its archive titles the 2016 event as the 40th and the 2020 event as the 44th. The 49th results were posted on 14 December 2025. The 50th (academic year 115) was announced on 12 September 2026 and, on the bulletin used here, still has no results title, so it is announced rather than completed. The Kendo Association under the Chinese Taipei Sports Federation (tsfka.org.tw) later started its own Chung Cheng Cup, numbered from a first edition around 2015. Same trophy name, different organiser. Read the header of the regulations.

Chinese Taipei teams have long entered the Hong Kong Asian Open. The 22nd edition was held on 28–29 March 2026 at To Kwa Wan Sports Centre, with a 1–5 dan examination the day before the matches. The Greater China Cup, started by the Hong Kong association in 2005, was built for exchange among the mainland, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, and Macau; confirm the latest edition on hongkongkendo.com. The matches follow FIK rules: three referees, ippon by flag, reiho before and after the bout. How to sit is in the next section. Flag detail stays on the match-rules page.

Besides the cups, ROCKA’s bulletin shows a repeating year: dan and title examinations twice (shodan through 8-dan, plus renshi, kyoshi, and hanshi), a national godo-geiko, a high-dan enbu taikai, referee seminars, and a national iaido examination. In 2026 the notices include the 11th high-dan enbu (photos posted 16 August), the 8th iaido examination (pass list 30 August), the 115 godo-geiko (photos 25 September), and a second dan session announced on 4 October. At the 1st Asia-Oceania Kendo Championship the men’s team placed third (notice 31 May 2026). Tsao Wei-ting (曹維婷) won the women’s 3-dan-and-under individual; Liu Chia-ying (劉佳盈), Wu Yun-ting (吳昀庭), and Tsai Chia-lun (蔡嘉倫) received fighting-spirit awards (notice 30 May). The host city and the brackets are in those notices.

A bout is usually three minutes, or first to two points. Team matches rotate, so one person’s time on the floor is shorter than the clock. Sit where you can see one court. Do not walk the aisle to chase every final. Silence the phone, take off a hat, and do not use flash. Applaud only if the hall is already doing so. If you are filming a child, that day’s school or ROCKA notice decides, not the fact that a stream exists. Bow, at least inwardly, when the competitors bow. What the flags mean is on the match-rules page.

• Match rules