Yoshio Senda

Yoshio Senda
Personal information
Nickname(s) Yosh
Born February 14, 1922
Mission, British Columbia
Died September 9, 2009(2009-09-09) (aged 87)
Lethbridge, Alberta
Sport
Country Canada
Sport Judo
Rank      Kudan (9th dan)
Club Lethbridge Kyodokan Judo Club
Updated on 7 September 2012.

Yoshio Senda CM (14 February 1922 – 9 September 2009) was a Canadian judoka, Member of the Order of Canada, Canada's first kudan (ninth-degree black belt) in Judo, and founder of the Lethbridge Kyodokan Judo Club.[1][2][3][4]

In 1989, the University of Lethbridge awarded an honorary Doctor of Law degree (Hon. LL.D.) to Yoshio Senda.[5] In 2004, Senda's daughter Jane Senda published a biography of her father and history of his club titled Kyodokan: the story of the Kyodokan Judo Club and the founder, Dr. Yoshio Senda.[2]

Publications

See also

References

  1. "Order of Canada – Yoshio Senda". The Governor General of Canada Website. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
  2. 1 2 "Homepage". Lethbridge Kyodokan Judo Club website. Retrieved 7 September 2012.
  3. "Yosh Senda". Judo Alberta website. Retrieved 7 September 2012.
  4. "'Wayne Gretzky of judo' dead at 87". Calgary Herald. 14 September 2009. Retrieved 7 September 2012.
  5. "University of Lethbridge Awards" (PDF). Awards of Distinction. Retrieved 20 August 2014.

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