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...jujitsu. Since Kano's time, the judo cult has spread to all corners of the globe. The first judo club was formed in Britain in 1918, in France in 1938. After the war, judo boomed. France, center of the European cult, now has 150,000 judo wrestlers (called judoka) in 500 clubs, and the International Judo Federation now includes ten European nations...
...Judoka consider themselves head & shoulders above ordinary grunt & groaners. One haughty English contestant spoke up for all judoka last week: "Judo is a clean, honest sport, an art, physical poetry, not a childish theatrical exhibition...