2010 All Japan Judo Championships

The All-Japan Judo Championships is an open-weight tournament held every year on April 29th at the storied Nippon Budokan. For Japanese Judoka, this is one of the three major judo titles, along with the Olympic Games and World Championships. Some past All Japan tournament winners include Naoya Ogawa and Satoshi Ishii who have went on to careers in mixed-martial-arts.

This years winner was the worlds #9 (+100kg) Kazuhiko Takahashi who scored a judges decision over world #13 (+100kg) Hiroki Tachiyama in the finals winning his first ever national title. 

Takahashi stunned Athens Olympic gold medalist and world #3 (+100kg) Keiji Suzuki as well as defending champion and world #1 (-100kg) Takamasa Anai en route to winning the title.

The meet also doubled as the final qualifier for the over-100-kilogram category at the world championships in Tokyo in September.. 

The results of "2010 All Japan Judo Championships" (winner on the left side):

Final :
(winner) Kazuhiko TAKAHASHI/ (Chui) / Hiroki TACHIYAMA

Semi-final :
Kazuhiko TAKAHASHI / (3-0) / Takamasa ANAI

Semi-final :
Hiroki TACHIYAMA / (Keikoku) / Yasuyuki MUNETA