Takebe

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Judo teacher in Tokyo at whose dojo the five-year-old Minoru Mochizuki began judo in 1912, after his family moved to Tokyo.

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  Mochizuki Minoru

  sports_martial_artsKōdōkan Jūdō Probable

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  First-person account in the Karaté-Bushido interview: began judo at Takebe's dojo in Tokyo in 1912 at age five; the Dragon Magazine interview adds that he interrupted after about two years when the family moved again

  The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.

  (1912–1914)

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  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

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  First-person account in the Karaté-Bushido interview: began judo at Takebe's dojo in Tokyo in 1912 at age five; the Dragon Magazine interview adds that he interrupted after about two years when the family moved again

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  “C'est là que j'ai commencé à pratiquer le judo en 1912, chez maître Takebe : j'avais 5 ans.”

  — Bénoliel, P.. (1987). Minoru Mochizuki - entretien (Karaté-Bushido no. 139, septembre 1987, pp. 28-35)info

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