Keiko Fukuda is the first woman ever to be declared a tenth level black belt. Aug. 11, 2011 -- Keiko Fukuda is 98 years old, 4 feet 10 and a mere 100 pounds, but this petite woman has been ...

The belt signifies that Keiko Fukuda, who celebrated her 90th birthday last spring, is the highest-ranking woman in the world in judo, a Japanese martial art in which technique and balance ...

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 the martial art and combat sport Judo. Fukuda is ...

NEW YORK — 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 ...

Keiko Fukuda, 98, has unashamedly devoted her life to Judo. The San Francisco-based 'little, bitty woman' is the first female - and one of only four living judo masters - to earn the highest Judo ...

She may only have been 4 feet 10 inches tall and weighed less than 50kg, but Keiko Fukuda, who died at her home in San Francisco last Saturday at the age of 99, is one of judo's iconic figures. Keiko ...

Sensei Keiko Fukuda has become the first woman to achieve a tenth-degree black belt in judo - at the age of 98. The highest rank in the martial art and combat sport, Fukuda joins just three other ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Keiko Fukuda, the Japanese-born granddaughter of a samurai who learned judo from its founder and became the highest-ranked woman in the martial art, has died at age 99 in ...

Keiko Fukuda, the first woman to earn a ninth-dan ranking in judo from the Kodokan, died at her home in San Francisco on Saturday at the age of 99. Born in April 1913, Fukuda's grandfather was a ...