A Gonzaga University class, “Judo and Self-Defense,” has drawn a record number of female students with 10 women in a class of 15. Many women said they took the class to feel safer walking on ...

The 10-year-old girl hospitalized after she and a friend were hit by a driver in Tierrasanta is “a silent warrior,” her judo instructor told NBC 7.

She remained determined and, in 1984, De Mars dusted off her judo gi (the judo uniform) and won her first women’s world judo title — the first American woman to hold that honor.

Keiko Fukuda, who learned judo from its inventor and went on to become the sport’s highest-ranked woman, died Feb. 9 at her home in San Francisco. She was 99. Her death was confirmed by Shelley ...