The credit for the formal founding of Judo, which means “the gentle way,” goes to Dr. Jigoro Kano, who opened the first dojo in 1882 in Tokyo. From NFL plays to college sports scores ...

At age 18, when he was a student at Nippon Sport Science University, Koga captured the Jigoro Kano Cup Tokyo International Judo Tournament. He was favored to win the gold medal at the 1988 Seoul ...

That was exactly 100 years ago. After that, judo was adopted as a training subject for the Vancouver Police Department, replacing boxing and wrestling. Jigoro Kano, the founder of modern judo ...