1895- 1898 An English engineer named E.W. Barton Wright studies Jiu Jitsu and Kodokan Judo in Tokyo. In 1900 Barton Wright returns to England and opens an academy. He brings Yukio Tani, Tani’s brother Kaneo and Seizo Yamamoto to London to teach. Barton Wright is reported to have asked Kano for instructors and Kano recommended the jujitsukas.
Kano’s student Mitsuyo Maeda travels to the West in the early 1900’s to compete in exhibition matches and prize fights. Maeda visits the United States in 1905. Later, he teams up with the Jiu Jitsu fighters in London. Maeda travels to Brazil in 1914, where he sets up an academy to teach martial arts.