Who is Sato Shizuya?
He is the founder of Nihon Jujutsu Founder, born 1929 in Tokyo, Japan. Sato-sensei began his lifetime study of judo during middle school at age 12. His father learned judo while in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War I, and was a senior judo instructor for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police. Sato Sr. included many preeminent pre-WWII Kodokan instructors as personal friends and judo compatriots included many preeminent pre-WWII Kodokan instructors, such as Mifune Kyuzo, Nagaoka Hidekazu, Sumiyuki Kotani, and Ito Kazuo all of whom lent their personal guidance and lifelong support to Sato-sensei.
