Character of BUDO (Judo and Kendo) with reference to change of its judging rule Terushi MURAYAMA (Kyoto University of Education) Change of judging rule of Judo and Kendo as BUDO is summarized in an introduction, The origin of each article and the background of its revised or supplemented ones are discussed in details. The main object of this report is interpretation on the reason why these revised and supplemented articles have been derived. The interpretation was infered from technical, tactical, and restrictive aspects of the rules. Especially it was done on the original character of BUDO.