In 1935, twenty-two-year-old Keiko Fukuda Shihan began her passage to become a Judo master.
Over the course of a week of conversations in her San Francisco home, Grand Master Fukuda shared her opinions.
Over seventy years later, Kumiko Hirano interviewed Grand Master Fukuda, who was now nearly one hundred.
As the only woman in the world to achieve the level of tenth dan, she blazed the way for women in Judo to be taken seriously across all martial arts arenas, including the Olympics.
In 1935, twenty-two-year-old Keiko Fukuda Shihan began her passage to become a Judo master