Personal information | |
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Nickname | Yosh |
Born | February 14, 1922 Mission, British Columbia |
Died | September 9, 2009 Lethbridge, Alberta | (aged 87)
Sport | |
Country | Canada |
Sport | Judo |
Rank | Kudan (9th dan) |
Club | Lethbridge Kyodokan Judo Club |
Updated on 7 September 2012. |
Yoshio Senda CM (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.[1][2][3][4]
Senda was forcibly relocated from Mission to Lethbridge during World War II.[5]
In 1989, the University of Lethbridge awarded an honorary Doctor of Law degree (Hon. LL.D.) to Yoshio Senda.[6] In 2004, Senda's daughter-in-law Jane Senda published a biography of her father-in-law and history of his club titled Kyodokan: the story of the Kyodokan Judo Club and the founder, Dr. Yoshio Senda.[2]