A master of the katana sword, Japan's Isao Machii is a cut above the rest > www.bit.ly/GWR-Isao | Guinness World Records

The Japanese sword is a myth still very much alive. Iaido and Kenjutsu practitioners, modern samurais, still use the Katana in their training, but lack of production has made the Katana a very rare and expensive item. Iaito manufacturing, a modern craft founded on the millennial tradition of Japanese sword-making, has led a revival of the sword industry over the past 50 years and is to this day used by tens of thousands of martial artists throughout the World. In Gifu prefecture, the cradle of J