october japanese educator athlete founder japanese martial art gain widespread international recognition official olympic sport innovations attributed include use black white belts introduction dan ranking relative ranking members martial art style known attributed include maximum efficiency minimum effort mutual welfare benefit professional life educator important included serving director primary education president played key role making japanese public school programs 1910s pioneer international sports accomplishments included asian member served officially representing japan olympic games held serving leading spokesman japan bid olympic games official honors decorations included rising sun inducted member hall_of_fame early years born sake family town japan family sake brands included father adopted son family business instead worked lay priest senior clerk shipping line father great believer power education provided son excellent education boy early teachers included neo scholars mother died boy years old father moved family tokyo young enrolled private schools english language tutor sent private school run europeans improve english german language skills time stood feet inches weighed pounds wished stronger day friend family member guard mentioned excellent form physical training showed techniques smaller man overcome larger stronger opponent decided wanted learn art despite insistence training date somewhat dangerous father discouraged telling pursue modern sport instead attended started looking teachers looked called assumption doctors knew better martial art teachers search brought student school turn referred taught mat room adjacent practice combination older schools training method consisted student taking fall fall teacher senior student began understand mechanics technique stressed applied technique ritual form gave short description technique engage free practice order teach experience student attained proficiency taught traditional forms method difficult special falling standard straw laid wooden floors trouble defeating seniors school started trying unfamiliar techniques rival tried techniques help studied tried technique carry learned book western wrestling worked shoulder wheel remains repertoire moment organizations countries prohibit throw competition august participated demonstration given united_states president demonstration took place home prominent businessman people involved demonstration included teachers training partner died soon demonstration age began studying friend despite years old standing tall gained powerful build training known excellence specialist striking vital areas method began progressed free fighting intense practice solid grounding taught soon assistant school death widow gave school years old popular works suggest obtained teaching license school documented certificate visible depicted museum published source rank specified authentic archival documents witnessed demonstration teacher later took members school impressed practitioners realized able beat talented simply training harder needed train experience led believe truly superior needed combine best elements schools including end began seek teachers provide superior elements adopt died began training expert throwing fond applied thoroughly learning believing throwing techniques particular better schools previously studied issued verified rank teaching certificate dated october establishment early 1880s clear separation teaching teachers taught past teacher came classes times week support teaching eventually student master began exchange places began defeat system revived term fifth adopted founded style combined characters meaning literally way meaning method technical standpoint combined throwing techniques pinning techniques preserves traditional forms minor differences mainline tradition similarly techniques forms preserved initially borrowed ideas wrote taking good points learned schools adding discoveries devised new system physical culture moral training winning contests introduced japanese public schools process took place increasing tournament technique development oversaw development growth organization remarkable effort enrollment grew fewer dozen students thousand dan graded members june started space belonging buddhist temple ward tokyo district ward attending days week help teach handful students time improved technique regular contests local police teams moved mat space april december started moving larger space located completed february winter training took place winter training started order pupil extremes heat cold virtue britain wrote late 1890s moved times mat space november mat space january incorporated endowed reason said march wonderful institution able reconstruct moral physical nature japanese youth founder personal attention moved lifetime march dedicated mat facility guests opening included belgian italian ambassadors japan moved current story facility old building sold ideals april reverend presented lecture called old art fighting weapons lecture took place british embassy tokyo theme main principle involved gaining victory yielding strength broad aims saw simultaneously encompassed self defense physical culture moral behavior gave definition added march brought fruition introduction organization held meeting tokyo april held public lecture days later hall good use spiritual physical strength common oneself literal translations phrases usually translated english maximum efficiency minimum effort mutual welfare benefit theories organization described detail article published american magazine september professional life educator promoted earned living educator entered june political science economics time taught graduated july following month began work professor fourth class tokyo appointed professor economics april returned position principal january appointed position august gave position dean fifth higher normal school present day teachers fifth higher time married wife daughter japanese ambassador korea eventually couple daughters sons summer went shanghai help establish program allow chinese students study japan revisited shanghai january appointed director primary education august received grant allowed study europe ship left september arrived october spent year europe trip visited paris berlin brussels amsterdam london returned japan soon returning japan resumed post president remained position retirement january helped establish later highest ranked private high schools japan considering political science economics family thought graduating university pursue career government ministry influential friends father initially offered position love teaching led instead accept position teaching students japan elite attended higher social positions teachers students allowed ride right doors classes teachers forbidden teachers felt compelled visit homes students summoned instruction advice effect teachers treated servants believed unacceptable refused play role teaching students teacher command respect time employed latest european american methods theories american educator especially influenced manner desired effect students administration slower warm methods arrival new principal ideas found acceptance educational philosophy combination traditional japanese neo contemporary european american include evolutionary known goals educational methods goals japanese educational programs early 20th century develop minds bodies spirits equal proportion increase patriotism loyalty especially emperor teach public morality increase physical strength stamina especially purpose making young men fit military service especially huge formations favored time boring high school college levels games baseball rugby spectator sports practical source physical exercise masses elite levels baseball football emphasis moral intellectual development instead elite coaches athletes tended emphasize winning cost answer word sense simply throwing people definitely sense winning cost instead sense maximum efficiency minimum effort mutual welfare benefit reporter yielding highest efficient use energy yielding active work came wrote governments japan china ask going send teams olympics japanese government want international stage saying told look ministry turned physical educator recent experience europe agreed represent japan talking french ambassador japan reading pamphlets sent developed words fairly good idea olympic games fulfilling duties member helped establish mission overseeing amateur sport japan official representative japan olympics stockholm involved organizing held osaka represented japan antwerp olympics early 1920s served play organizing held osaka attend olympics paris represent japan olympics amsterdam los_angeles berlin leading international japan bid olympics chief goal words gather people common cause friendly feeling goals particularly involve getting olympics letter britain legacy stopped giving public exhibitions reason failing health probably compounded kidney stones british wrote people don think live longer friends london continued attending important events new years ceremonies continued participating olympics business died sea board motor ship japanese merchant fleet 1930s tokyo time world japanese date death international date death utc cause death officially listed pneumonia sources list food poisoning cause death 1990s appeared allegations murdered poisoning dying pneumonia known contemporary documentation support claim opposition japanese known opposed allegedly assassinated die instead 1950s clubs sprang world introduced olympic sport tokyo olympics reintroduced munich olympics posthumous reputation assured nonetheless true legacy said speech given sun greater education person sending society generation contribution extending generations come compared way legacy left new set rules honors order rising sun gold rays neck ribbon japan published works october december reprint old art fighting weapons transactions society japan december japanese art self defence living age contribution education originally lecture given occasion principles applications phases human activity unpublished lecture given athens greece june reprinted principles quarterly bulletin april olympic games japan connecticut tokyo japanese government railways tokyo tokyo tokyo edited supervision tokyo new_york tokyo
Kanō Jigorō