By KOGO SHIOYA/ Staff Writer
March 4, 2022 at 15:55 JST
Yasuhiro Yamashita, left, a renowned judoka, shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin at Tokyo’s Roppongi Hills in 2005 during Putin’s visit to Japan. (Pool)
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has Japan’s judo authorities grappling with calls from the public to take Russian President Vladimir Putin to the mat and strip him of his high-ranking belt. [Read More]
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