Word: jiujitsu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tokyo, pink with pride over his new certificate of merit in the art of jiujitsu, Chuyu Ota, 19, set out to throw chance passers-by met by night in the street near his home, boasted that he would make the number 1,000. Ota's score reached 15. Rolling up his sleeves, he accosted his sixteenth, crouched, took hold and suddenly spun into the air. Artist Ota crashed, dazed, to the ground, was picked up and taken to jail by the sixteenth, a Tokyo police department jiu-jitsu expert...