EDITORIAL

From the Curator / Director Michael Matsuda

Welcome to the first issue of the Martial Arts History Museum magazine. Oh, we’re not really a magazine, we are actually a glorified newsletter designed to keep you informed on what’s happening at the museum. However, as a former magazine publisher and contributing editor for Black Belt and Inside Kung Fu magazine for many years, I wanted to do something to give honor to those two publications. Making the newsletter look like a magazine is my way of giving thanks for the impact they both made on my life.

Through these pages, you will see our events, the exciting new products we have to help support the museum, and a listing of our upcoming rotating exhibits. This magazine will be sent to our 80,000 email subscribers each month and hopefully, you will find us on the Facebook page.

There will be no charge for viewing our magazine.

Is the magazine going to be printable? Probably not. Obviously, the internet is the reason all the martial arts and other magazines are no longer in circulation. Yes, bad internet. But, to keep up with new media, we took the internet path….I know, I know.

If you will notice, our cover is pretty nice. It looks like a magazine and has that cover feel and that’s what I wanted to do, have that magazine feel. Doug Wong, the man who loaned us almost his entire school, is gracing our first cover. It’s my way of saying thanks.

I had planned to release this about four years ago and of course, COVID came and now the new museum came and I didn’t have the time or resources to do it, but now I have.

My goal is to have maybe one article per issue. Maybe someone will see the value of 80,000 subscribers and decide to get an advertisement…hint, hint.

The magazine will go out in several different languages as well. How frequently will the magazine be online published? I don't know yet, we'll play it day by day.

So, with that all said, enjoy the first issue of the Martial Arts History Museum magazine.