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Wartime jūdō on film: A glimpse of atemi-waza

I had previously written about a possible connection between karate and jūdō. The point was that Kanō Jigorō (1860–1938) probably adapted techniques from karate into his system. Recently, I came across a clip from a Japanese newsreel (日本ニュース No. 149, 13 April 1943) that features such a technique in a very brief scene (at 04:46).… Continue reading