He was head of the Promotions Panel at the Kodokan and former international chairperson of the All Nippon Judo Federation.

[1] He was one of only fifteen judoka to have attained Kodokan 10th dan rank, having been promoted at the New Year Kagami biraki Ceremony, 8 January 2006 along with Toshiro Daigo and Yoshimi Osawa.

[1][2] Abe was born in 1922 and educated at Tsukuba University.

He was sent by the Kodokan as a judo teacher to France in 1951 and Belgium in 1953.

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