Japanese fencer Koki Kano didn ... in the foil―Japan’s first individual medal in fencing―at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, he picked up the sword. Then he switched to the epee while at Iwakuni ...

But thanks to the strenuous efforts of his grandson, the promise was kept, and a Japanese sword in the U.S. veteran’s possession was returned to the family of a former enemy combatant after a ...