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...Muscle Culture." As last week's tournament showed, the sport of judo, founded in 1882 by a Japanese named Jigoro Kano, is nothing more than a gentlemanly version of jujitsu. Kano learned the ancient art at 18, but decided that the kicking, stabbing and choking were more than he could stomach. So he founded the "muscle culture" of judo, an "efficient use of energy" that eliminated the mayhem and murder of jujitsu. Since Kano's time, the judo cult has spread to all corners of the globe. The first judo club was formed in Britain...
...Keith Kano '22 holds the position of Special Adviser to the President. Working with him as assistants are Frank P. Kinnicutt '30 and Robert Duncan '12. Although formally organized last July, the office did not swing into action until the opening of this fall term...
...time he was seven, Kyosai had become a full-fledged art student. He wrung the traditional Kano academy dry, and appropriated every technique of Japan's old masters. Then he opened his own highly unorthodox art school. For the edification of his students, he kept the school yard crammed with pets. Nature, Kyosai had decided, was more instructive than convention. He always knew that the eagle would eventually conquer the wind...
Technicians. A spokesman for Japanese civilians in China was suave Viscount Hisaakira Kano, an executive of the once powerful Yokohama Specie Bank and a leading carpetbagger of the late Co-Prosperity Sphere. In Peiping he talked to the New York Herald Tribune's A. T. Steele...
...Viscount said that the Japanese economic development of North China v, as greater than generally supposed. Some 70,000 Japanese technicians had supervised combined industries employing 1,400,000 Chinese. Said Kano...