Yoshio Senda
Yoshio Senda (14 February 1922 – 9 September 2009) was a Canadian judoka, Member of the Order of Canada, Canada's first "kudan" (ninth-degree black belt) in Judo, and founder of the Lethbridge Kyodokan Judo Club. In 1989, the University of Lethbridge awarded an honorary Doctor of Law degree (Hon. LL.D.) to Yoshio Senda. In 2004, Senda's daughter-in-law Jane Senda published a biography of her father-in-law and history of his club titled "Kyodokan: the story of the Kyodokan Judo Club and the founder, Dr. Yoshio Senda".