is a Japanese

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who competed in the

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and the

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. Ueno was born in

Asahikawa is a city in Kamikawa Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. It is the capital of the subprefecture, and the second-largest city in Hokkaido, after Sapporo. It has been a core city since April 1, 2000. The city is currently well known for the Asahiy ...

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. In 2004, she earned

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's fifth Olympic Gold Medal in ten events, taking the 70 kg women's

judo is an unarmed gendai budō, modern Japanese martial art, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【柔道】(CD-ROM version of Encyclopedia Nipponi ...

event. She also won the Olympic Gold Medal in 2008. Her younger sisters, Yoshie is

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and

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is World junior champion in

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Video footage of Masae Ueno
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