Professor Henry Seishiro OkazakiHe was born 1890 in Kakeda, Fukushima, Japan and immigrated to Hawaii in 1906. Okazaki was knownfor his healing work as well as his lifetime dedication to the martial arts. He studied in Jujutsu, OkinawanKarate, Chinese Kung Fu, Hawaiian Lua, Eskrima, Boxing and Wrestling. In 1928 he developed a systemof self-defense for girls and women by combining several older styles of Jujutsu, and is credited inteaching the first women's self-defense courses in the country. He was the first Japanese-American toteach to non-Japanese students and founded the American Jujitsu Institute in Hawaii. The methods hetaught were what he considered simple and effective. This book was written to teach those methods.