Miranda Imamura’s grandfather, Haruo Imamura, started the Fresno State Judo Club in 1985 along with the Fresno Judo Club.
Nearly 30 years later, junior pre-nursing major Miranda revived the campus judo club as its lone competitor and will be representing Fresno State and the United States at the 2017 World University Games in Taipei, Taiwan.
Haruo is one of the highest-ranked blackbelts in the country and a well-respected judo competitor in Japan and the U.S. He came to Fresno from Japan, while on tour, when the Japan all-star collegiate team made a stop in Fresno. He has been teaching at Fresno State in the kinesiology department since 1980.