# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gunji-koizumi
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:35:05.275Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gunji-koizumi"
name: "Gunji Koizumi"
slug: "gunji-koizumi"
description: "Gunji Koizumi , known affectionately by colleagues as G.K., was a Japanese master of judo who introduced this martial art to the United Kingdom, and came to be known as the 'Father of British Judo.' He was the founder of the Budokwai, a pioneering Japanese martial arts society in England. Koizumi helped establish the British Judo Association, and founded the European Judo Union. He held the rank of 8th dan in judo. Koizumi's apparent suicide in 1965 shocked the worldwide judo community."
tagline: "Japanese martial artist (1885-1965)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1885-07-08"
deathDate: "1965-04-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.7
  momentum:             11.625
  historical:           5.015552
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunji_Koizumi"
    title: "Gunji Koizumi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunji_Koizumi"
    title: "Gunji Koizumi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunji_Koizumi"
    title: "Gunji Koizumi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8F%E6%B3%89%E8%BB%8D%E6%B2%BB"
    title: "小泉軍治"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunji_Koizumi"
    title: "Gunji Koizumi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5618841"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump