Is getting a black belt on your life's to-do list? Then this elderly woman in San Francisco just might be your hero. Just two years before her 100th birthday, Sensei Keiko Fukuda has become the first woman to achieve a tenth-degree black belt --- the highest rank in Judo . Fukuda is now one of only four living people who have earned the tenth-degree black belt. Throughout history, only 16 people have ever achieved this honor. Fukuda began practicing Judo in 1935 and is the only surviving student of its founder, Kano Jiguro. At her teacher's requirement, she learned English to help spread Judo internationally. During a time when getting married, building a family and becoming a housewife were the norms ,Fukuda broke from tradition, continuing Judo instead of getting married. "All I did was Judo ... This was my marriage," Fukuda replied tearfully to the San Francisco Chronicle. "This is when my destiny was set. I just imagined how long the road would be." She described the Jiguro's school as "old-fashioned and sexist about belts and ranks". In fact, an edict that prevented women from achieving any higher than a fifth-degree black belt kept Fukuda at that level for 30 years. She finally got the sixth degree in 1972 when a women's division was created. Fukuda thinks Judo and her life to be "gentle, kind and beautiful, yet firm and strong, both mentally and physically". Fukuda says this kind of beauty is not external . She explained. "I believe this inner beauty is true beauty... All my life this has been my dream." Her dream was turned into reality, and the 98-year-old Sensei Keiko Fukuda continues to teach Judo three times a week at a women's Judo training center.
when did Keiko start practicing?
how many people are living with a 10th degree black belt?
how many in history?
did she learn english?
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what was she married to ?
how long was she stuck at a 5th degree black belt?
what year did she achieve 6th degree?
how many times a week does she teach?
how old is she?
where does she teach
where does she live?
how many other students who trained with her are living?
who was their teacher?
did she become a housewife?
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when was a woman's division created?
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in 1935
Fukuda began practicing Judo in 1935
four
Fukuda is now one of only four living people who have earned the tenth-degree black belt
16
Throughout history, only 16 people have ever achieved this honor
yes
she learned English
her teacher required it
 At her teacher's requirement, she learned English
judo
"All I did was Judo ... This was my marriage
30 years
an edict that prevented women from achieving any higher than a fifth-degree black belt kept Fukuda at that level for 30 years
1972
 She finally got the sixth degree in 1972
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Fukuda continues to teach Judo three times a week
98
and the 98-year-old Sensei Keiko Fukuda
a women's Judo training center.
Fukuda continues to teach Judo three times a week at a women's Judo training center.
San Francisco
 Then this elderly woman in San Francisco
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Fukuda began practicing Judo in 1935 and is the only surviving student of its founder, Kano Jigur
Kano Jiguro
is the only surviving student of its founder, Kano Jiguro
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"All I did was Judo ... This was my marriage
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 building a family and becoming a housewife were the norms ,Fukuda broke from tradition
no
 Fukuda says this kind of beauty is not external
"old-fashioned and sexist about belts and ranks"
 She described the Jiguro's school as "old-fashioned and sexist about belts and ranks"
in 1972
in 1972 when a women's division was created
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