FUKUDA, Hiroshi - Passed away peacefully in San Francisco on April 22, 2002 at the age of 77 years. He was surrounded by family including his wife, Nobu, of 45 years, his son Takashi Fukuda of San ...

Fukuda is the only living student of judo's founder, Jigoro Kano, who opened his judo school, the Kodokan, in Tokyo, in 1882. Kano added a women's section to his school about 40 years later and ...