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Keiko Fukuda

August 22, 2014 in Modern Worthies

Keiko Fukuda

Judo's greatest female practitioner

Keiko Fukuda was the only woman to ever be awarded the highest degree black belt in Judo — and she did so in her late 90s. She gave up marriage, she gave up motherhood, she gave up everything for her love of Judo. All this, starting in a time when women didn’t even show their... Read more »

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