The Samurai Way: Bushido Origins of Modern Day Martial Arts (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781533047847)

Master Grant A. Miller began studying martial arts at the age of 9 and has spent his life devoted to them. His first discipline, introduced to him by his foster family, was the Chinese art of Kung Fu, specifically it was the Eagle Claw style. While in college, he studied Tang So Do. Master Miller studied abroad in Japan at Kansai Gaikokugo Daigaku University, earning a certificate of proficiency in the language for both reading and writing. During and after college, including his time abroad, he studied for various periods JuJutsu, Aikido, Judo and Kickboxing. In 1994 he began his study of Shotokan karate, and continues to do so today. He spent 12 years working for a Japanese company both in the United States and Japan, and while his professional focus is information technology and systems, his fluency in the language enabled him to act as an interpreter on numerous occasions. Master Miller is fluent in Japanese, and can speak with varying degrees of proficiency in Cantonese, French and German. He was a contributing author on two books on Microsoft Windows server technologies, and worked as a technical editor on several others, as well as being a translator on a book dealing with a French family during WWII. He currently owns a karate school in Pittsburgh, PA, and oversees the King Cobra Karate Association's branch schools located outside of Erie, PA.