Taiho-jutsu (Arresting Art)
逮捕術The Japanese arresting techniques for the police, compiled in 1947. The aim is to detain a person alive and unhurt, not to win a fight.
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About Taiho-jutsu (Arresting Art)
Taiho-jutsu means literally "the art of arresting" and denotes the Japanese techniques by which police detain a person without killing or seriously injuring them. That sets it apart from martial arts aimed at defeating an opponent: the goal is not to win but to bring someone under control and take them away. Its roots reach into the Edo period, when officials and constables worked with a set of specialised fields — toritejutsu, the grips of detention, jittejutsu, the use of the iron truncheon jitte, and hojojutsu, binding with cord. The foundation was jujutsu, supplemented by implements that made it possible to disarm an armed man without resorting to a blade. The present form arose after the war. In 1947 a technical committee of the Tokyo police, whose members included the kendoist Saimura Goro and the judoka Nagaoka Shuichi, assembled a unified system and published the Fundamentals of Taiho-jutsu as an official manual for police officers. This page therefore gives that year rather than a founder's name — it was the work of a committee. The syllabus combines elements of judo, karate, aikido and boxing, and considerable weight falls on the baton, both the short keibo and the telescopic tokushu keibo. Since 1947 it has passed through several revisions responding to changes in street conditions. Instructors of the Shudokan-ryu line today teach arrest and control tactics at police academies in California and to military units elsewhere in the world.
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