Toshiyuki Seino

Toshiyuki “Tosh” Seino (born October 1938) is an American former competitive judo athlete. Seino was born in Hawthorne, California, United States. After spending several years incarcerated in an internment camp at California's Tule Lake during World War II, he and his family moved to Japan. Seino won numerous judo competitions at both the national and international levels, beating heavyweight Olympian George Harris, despite being a middleweight. He returned to the United States at age 20. Seino was an AAU National Champion in Judo. Seino enlisted in the US Air Force in 1959 and served as a self defense instructor. Seino competed in three Judo World Championships.