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Former judo champion yamashita yasuhiro, now professor at tokai university, describes putins devotion to judo and how he has learned from the judo ideal of gentleness to deepen his ties with the world. Any commercials you might see on the videos are from third party rights. There were some rough remarks on the comments of from some of the readers at fresh home about this tokyo residence by yasuhiro yamashita, but i think it is quite lovely. At the age of 10, he started training in judo at his elementary school. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Osotogari judo masterclass techniques yamashita, yasuhiro on. Yamashita yasuhiro, born june 1, 1957 in yamato, kumamoto.