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Judo means "the gentle way" in Japanese, but there's nothing gentle about Kosei Inoue as he grapples with a teammate at an Olympic training camp near Nagano in Japan. The stuffy gymnasium reverberates with the drum roll of bodies slamming off the mats as Inoue, an Olympic gold medalist and three-time world champion, grips his sparring partner, a baby-faced giant considerably larger than the 100-kg Inoue. The pair crashes together, then ricochets in a flailing knot off the mats and out of bounds, nearly crushing a Time reporter with a total of more than...
...Still, Inoue professes to care less about medals than what he calls "ultimate judo." "I believe from now on I have to do judo as only Kosei Inoue can," he says. "I am thinking of doing my own judo, to create a new one." And when he finally achieves that? "The moment I do will be the time for retirement...
...believed that the hundreds of quakes that shook (and still shake) their islands every year were caused by the casual movements of a great spider that carried the earth on its back. Natives of Siberia's quake-prone Kamchatka Peninsula blamed the tremors on a giant dog named Kosei tossing snow off his fur. Pythagoras, the Greek philosopher and mathematician, believed that earthquakes were caused by the dead fighting among themselves. Another ancient Greek, Aristotle, had a more scientific explanation. He contended that the earth's rumblings were the result of hot air masses trying to escape from...
...Ceremony will feature as speakers I. A. Richards, University Professor, emeritus; Everett I. Mendelsohn, associate professor or History and Science: Charles Price, preacher to the University Michael Harrington. Congressman-elect from Massachusetts: and author Jonathan Kosei...
Married. Princess Nobuko Kuni, sister of the Crown Princess Nogako of Japan, to one Kosei Sanjo, commoner ; in Tokio. To marry one below her in blood, she was obliged to forfeit her rank...
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