Yoshio Senda CM (14 February 1922 – 9 September 2009) was a Canadian judoka, Member of the Order of Canada, Canada's first kudan (ninth-degree black belt) in Judo, and founder of the Lethbridge Kyodokan Judo Club.
[1][2][3][4] Senda was forcibly relocated from Mission to Lethbridge during World War II.
[5] In 1989, the University of Lethbridge awarded an honorary Doctor of Law degree (Hon.
[6] In 2004, Senda's daughter-in-law Jane Senda published a biography of her father-in-law and history of his club titled Kyodokan: the story of the Kyodokan Judo Club and the founder, Dr. Yoshio Senda.
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