The Art of Judo: The Spirit of Summer

21. Nov 2018

For the second episode of its series 'the Art of Judo', the International Judo Federation focused on the passion for the sport in the country where it was born in 1882, after a young man, Jigoro Kano, discovered all that he could bring to the society of his country and by extension to the society of the whole world.

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