HARRY COOK

NAME: Henry Wilson Cook

EDUCATION: BA. Chinese Studies Durham, 1973
Post Graduate Certificate of Education, Durham 1974

PUBLICATIONS: Contributor to The Fighting Arts: Choosing the Way Dave Scott and Mick Pappas Rider 1985
Contributor to The Elements of Zen by David Scott and Tony Doubleday, Element Books Ltd. 1992
Author of Samurai: The Story of a Warrior Tradition Blandford Press 1993
Author of Way of the Warrior Vol 1 Warriors Dreams Publications, England 1999 Way of the Warrior Vol 2, 2004
Co-author (with Clive Layton) The Shotokan Karate Book of Quotes Kirby Publishing, London 2001
Author of the highly regarded The Precise History of Shotokan Karate, Dragon Books, California 2001
Author of Martial Arts Karate Raintree Publishers, Oxford 2003

I was a regular columnist in Europe's leading martial arts magazine Fighting Arts International, as well as contributing articles on a wide range of subjects and interviews with leading teachers and practitioners of the martial arts and related subjects. Currently I write a regular column in Dragon Times magazine, based in California. I have had more than one hundred articles published.

BACKGROUND: After university I worked as a teacher in a comprehensive school in South Shields. I lived in Japan from 1977 to 1990 where I worked as an English teacher in Tokyo and Kyoto. I was the Head of the school in Kyoto and was responsible for the general running of the school in all areas.

I am the Chief Instructor of the Seijinkai Karate-do Association, a British based martial arts group dedicated to the practice of traditional Okinawan and Japanese martial arts and related systems. I have some experience working in television and have been technical adviser and commentator for a number of programs dealing with the martial arts and applied self defence. One series I was involved with, a three part program entitled Budo Sai, was shown nationally and received very favourable reviews from both the general public and the martial arts community.

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