In just a quarter of a century, Russia has transformed from a country where the martial arts of the East were under the strictest ban, into a great power of martial arts, which is now practiced by about five million people, united in dozens of federations, which allows us to speak of the most widespread Russian form sports. But the fact of the matter is that Japanese budo - a set of traditional martial arts - has never been a sport! What have they really been for centuries? What is the personality of a modern Master and Mentor? What is the continuity of the canons of budo? Who is destined to become the custodian of the true traditions of ancient martial arts in the 21st century? And finally, who in Japan has the right to evaluate real masters? We will find the answers to all these questions in the book by A. Arabadzhiev and A. Kulanov, which for the first time lifts the veil of secrecy over the Society of Military Virtue of Great Japan, this kind of “Masonic lodge” of luminaries of Budo, created more than a hundred years ago in the Land of the Rising Sun. The authors, who know first-hand the structure and characteristic differences of this unique organization, comprehending its work from the inside, themselves participate in the process of transferring knowledge, preserving and enhancing the traditions of martial arts, both in theory and in practice. Anyone who today takes on the proud title of booth, who wants to learn more about the innermost essence of martial arts, their past, present and future, must read this book.