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Jon Reading wrote:
In 1941, O'Sensei performed a demonstration before members of the royal family (the Emperor I believe was absent) during which he seriously injured his uke, Tsutomu Yukawa. I believe O'Sensei broke Mr. Yukawa's arm. Under Graham's contention, since O'Sensei's technique injured his partner O'Sensei was not correctly performing technique because it resulted in injury to uke.
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Just like to chime in and add the fact that according to the interview with Shioda Sensei conducted by Stan Pranin:
For the 10 days prior O'Sensei was suffering from jaundice, and in fact had been vomiting constantly and had hardly eaten at all. Yukawa compensated knowing how ill O'sensei was and attacked weakly, he was slammed into the mat and his arm was injured, this was 15 seconds into the performance,