The Kodokan is an eight-storey training mecca ... “This is not bad,” Murata insists. “But I think Jigoro Kano would be feeling very sad if all Japanese think of judo as a sport only.” ...

Jigoro Kano – the “Father of Judo” – features ... Kano moved to Tokyo where he would eventually open his own dojo – the Kodokan Judo Institute – in 1882. Former world number one ...

Only the bronze statue of judo's founder Jigoro Kano gives a hint that this unremarkable building is in fact the Kodokan, a Mecca for judo that attracts pilgrims from around the world. Here is a ...

In the late 1800s the great Kano Jigoro streamlined the overly complicated Japanese grappling art Jujitsu into the highly effective Kodokan Judo. Japan was now open to the world, freely trading ...

Head coach at the Kodokan, Motonari Sameshima ... bowing to the statue of the sport's founder Jigoro Kano, before they do so. "One French woman even cried at the entrance. She said 'Finally ...

In an unassuming Tokyo tower block sits the headquarters of a sport at a spiritual crossroads. A stone’s throw from the Japanese capital’s space age domed baseball stadium, an ...

Only the bronze statue of judo's founder Jigoro Kano gives a hint that this unremarkable building is in fact the Kodokan, a Mecca for judo that attracts pilgrims from around the world. Here is a ...

Head coach at the Kodokan, Motonari Sameshima ... bowing to the statue of the sport's founder Jigoro Kano, before they do so. "One French woman even cried at the entrance. She said 'Finally ...