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International Division: admission, ¥ 6,000; entrance fee, ¥6,000; tuition, ¥5,000; member’s card ¥500. Total: ¥17,500 yen.

Kodokan Judo Headquarters is located at:

1-16-30 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112, Japan.

For English-speaking services (practice times, locations, fees, lodging facilities for judoka from overseas) contact:

Kodokan School of Judo, Department of International Affairs

Tel: (03) 3818-4172 Fax: (03) 3814-2918

e-mail: int-kdn@po.iijnet.or.jp

If you will be located in the Osaka area, contact:

Kodokan Osaka International Judo Center

4-15-11 Nagata, Joto-ku, Osaka, Japan

Tel: (06) 961-0640

Judo is my favorite way for children to enter the martial arts. Most children would love to spend an hour or so wrestling with one another in baggy clothes on a soft gymnastic floor. If you will be with your children while in Japan you might look into a nearby children’s judo club. I found that most Japanese parents who seek to expose their children to martial arts at a young age will select either judo or kendo. It was very common in the area in which I lived to see young children late in the afternoon with blue bags of kendo armor or judogi riding the subway to their martial arts class. Judo, a very popular sport in Japan, also appeals to the teenagers and young adults. Some of the most ferocious competition takes place at the high school and college levels.