Jigoro Kano's educational utopia: the judo Kodokan - Abstract

The development of judo supposed the integration of an oriental discipline in the international sport culture. However, although incorporation in western culture deeply affected the original view of judo founder Jigoro Kano, judo had already lost most of its original essence before that. Nowadays, only a few people who practice judo know about Kano’s ideas. The aim of this work is to show the true aims and the educational objectives that stimulate Kano´s educational method, the Kokokan judo, and how social political circumstances before mentioned put an end to this educational utopia.