Yoshio Senda

{{Short description|Canadian judoka (1922–2009)}}

{{Infobox judoka

| nickname = Yosh

| birth_place = Mission, British Columbia

| birth_date = February 14, 1922

| death_place = Lethbridge, Alberta

| death_date = {{death date and age|2009|9|9|1922|2|14}}

| country = Canada

| sport = Judo

| dan = 9

| club = Lethbridge Kyodokan Judo Club

| updated = 7 September 2012

}}

Yoshio Senda {{post-nominals|post-noms=CM}} (14 February 1922 – 9 September 2009) was a Canadian judoka, Member of the Order of Canada, Canada's first kudan (ninth-degree black belt) in Judo, and founder of the Lethbridge Kyodokan Judo Club.{{cite web|title=Order of Canada – Yoshio Senda|url=http://www.gg.ca/honour.aspx?id=4655&t=12&ln=Senda|work=The Governor General of Canada Website|access-date=5 August 2012}}{{cite web|title=Homepage|url=http://www.lajudo.com/Lethbridge_Judo/Home.html|work=Lethbridge Kyodokan Judo Club website|access-date=7 September 2012}}{{cite web|title=Yosh Senda |url=http://www.judoalberta.com/biographies_yoshsenda.shtml |work=Judo Alberta website |access-date=7 September 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112043611/http://www.judoalberta.com/biographies_yoshsenda.shtml |archive-date=January 12, 2012 }}{{cite news|title='Wayne Gretzky of judo' dead at 87|url=http://www2.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/city/story.html?id=78c27d03-c795-4cf4-8b73-7793c76e2eed|access-date=7 September 2012|newspaper=Calgary Herald|date=14 September 2009}}

Senda was forcibly relocated from Mission to Lethbridge during World War II.{{cite web|title=SSHRC: Yoshio Senda|url=https://loi.uvic.ca/archive/send11.html| access-date=2023-09-27}}

In 1989, the University of Lethbridge awarded an honorary Doctor of Law degree (Hon. LL.D.) to Yoshio Senda.{{cite web|title=University of Lethbridge Awards|url=http://www.uleth.ca/ross/sites/ross/files/imported/academic-calendar/2014-15/part19.pdf|work=Awards of Distinction|access-date=20 August 2014}} In 2004, Senda's daughter-in-law Jane Senda published a biography of her father-in-law and history of his club titled Kyodokan: the story of the Kyodokan Judo Club and the founder, Dr. Yoshio Senda.