I was wondering if anyone had heard of a Japanese TV crew (TBS) visiting a judo dojo in Massafra, Italy last year.
The crew was accompanied by 2000 Olympic gold medalist Makoto Takimoto.

It featured in a year-end of "Bukkomi Japanese", a show that purports to travel around the world and expose "fake" Japanese culture - essentially "the sushi police"

The program was too awful to watch so I missed most of the content, but the premise was that the dojo's owner was teaching fake judo (and the TV program made a HUGE fuss that he had never been to Japan or had a Japanese teacher), and that Takimoto would attend "undercover" as a complete beginner... I guess you get the picture.

I only bring this up here because it has been revealed that another section of the program was faked. Maybe the dojo story was also a set-up.