It's time for StoryCorps and a look at an Olympic pioneer in women's judo. It's a sport that wasn't allowed at the Olympics until 1988 when martial arts champion Rusty Kanokogi threatened to sue. She ...

A judo competitor from Tajikistan refused to shake his Israeli competitor’s hand after beating him at the 2024 Paris Olympics — and then was subjected to immediate karma when he was beaten and left in ...

Mixed Martial Arts is exactly what the name implies. Competitors combine the knowledge and techniques of many different Martial Arts into one fluid style that works for them. There are many styles of ...

Judo coaches are being trained to teach skills to the wider public later this year Judo is being used to teach "older adults" how to fall safely in an attempt to reduce hospital admissions each year.

When Rafaela Silva applied the waza-ari that earned her the golden medal - the first won by Brazil in this Olympic Games -, Beatriz Lopes, 13, was watching the match at the same gym where the judoka ...

July 8, 1853 is a watershed moment in Japanese history, when Commodore Perry of the U.S. Navy took a small group of steam-powered warships into Edo (Tokyo) Bay. These iron sided war machines belched ...