Two-sword fencing has been more popular in China and Southeast Asia than in Japan, for example soken (fencing with two double-edged straight swords) and soto (fencing with two butterfly swords) in China, and Silat, Eskrima and Krabi-krabong in Southeast Asia (in Southeast Asia and China there are many different styles of two-sword fencing such as two short clubs, two daggers, and one long sword and one short sword).
中国では双剣や双刀、東南アジアではシラットやエスクリマ、クラビクラボーンなどの武術で二刀流（東南アジアや中国では、短棒二本や短剣二本や長短の剣など二刀流のバリエーションが多い）が行われ、日本とは違い比較的一般的であった。