The Analytical Fighting Style
The Creation of Judo
Jigoro Kano’s timing was perfect. At any other moment, his obscure training system, created in 1882 as a hybrid of different schools from an older, obsolete samurai method of unarmed combat, would have been, at best, a footnote in history. But at the turn of the twentieth century, Japan found itself at the crux of two radical transformations: One was an industrial modernization process, which would in time take the country from a feudal economy to a position that ranked it among the modern nations of the world and was crystalized with its victory over the mighty Russian empire in the war of 1905, an unthinkable feat for a nation that until a few decades before had been isolated ...
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