Nickname(s) Yosh Name Yoshio Senda Rank Kudan (9th dan) | Sport Judo Country Canada | |
Born February 14, 1922 Mission, British Columbia Club Lethbridge Kyodokan Judo Club Died September 9, 2009, Lethbridge, Canada | ||
Yoshio Senda (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.
In 1989, the University of Lethbridge awarded an honorary Doctor of Law degree (Hon. LL.D.) to Yoshio Senda. 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.
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