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International Women's Day 2024
Japan and France Celebrate IWD

As the Upper Austria Grand Prix is unfolding in Linz, the judo family also gather together on the other ...

What a Year that Was!

After the second day of the Tokyo Grand Slam, the curtain fell on twelve months of competition on the ...

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+100kg: Bashaev Activates Beast Mode

With 6 of the world’s top 10 athletes in the +100kg category present at the Tokyo Grand Slam 2023, ...

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-48kg: Tsunoda Knows No Equal

Japan’s Natsumi Tsunoda is the current and 3-time consecutive world champion at -48kg, and her recent ...

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-63kg: Takaichi Takes Third Tokyo Title

Japan took a clean sweep of the medals in the -63kg category at their home grand slam in 2022, and with ...

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-60kg: Nagayama’s Time To Shine

Though Ryuju Nagayama was pipped at the post by Naohisa Takato to become the Japanese athlete selected ...

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-78kg: Aguiar’s Experience Betters Lanir’s Youth

Despite a 4-strong Japanese team featuring former world champions and the current Olympic champion, the ...

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-66kg: The Return of the King

In our preview for the Tokyo Grand Slam 2023, we highlighted the return of Hifumi Abe and his sister ...

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-52kg: Welcome Back to the Abe Show

Having not lost a match on the IJF World Tour since the Osaka Grand Slam 2019, where she was beaten in ...

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-100kg: Kanikovskiy Cruises to Gold

Since bursting onto the IJF World Tour at the Abu Dhabi Grand Slam 2021, where he took a silver medal, ...

Judo for Children
Children in the Spotlight!

During the second day of competition at the Tokyo Grand Slam 2023, the number of champions on the tatami ...

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-90kg: Murao Outclasses Everyone

Though Japan continues to dominate in certain weight categories on the world stage, it has been some ...