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Judo Grand Slam Tokyo

judo competition

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ79466799 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Grand Slam Tokyo (formerly Jigoro Kano Cup Tokyo International Judo Tournament (嘉納治五郎杯東京国際柔道大会, Kanō Jigorō Hai Tōkyō Kokusai Jūdō Taikai)) is an international judo competition held as part of the International Judo Federation (IJF) World Tour Grand Slam series.

The first Jigoro Kano Cup was held at the Nippon Budōkan from November 23 to 26, 1978 and was a consequence of the canceled 1977 World Judo Championships.

Editorial summary

“Judo Grand Slam Tokyo” enters the record as judo competition. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Judo, Grand and Slam can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1978, 1977—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1978. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Judo, Grand and Slam.
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“Judo Grand Slam Tokyo” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Judo, Grand and Slam provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 4, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q79466799. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1978 and 1977.

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Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Judo Grand Slam Tokyo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.