To Japan’s traditionalists, karate represents qualities fundamental to the national character. But to be a modern sport, the discipline has been forced to adapt. By Ben Dooley and Hisako Ueno TOKYO — ...

Tetsuhiro Hokama, known to his students as “Hokama Sensei,” using the Japanese honorific for “teacher,” has taught old-style Okinawan karate in his home country of Japan as well as Europe, Africa and ...

WINTER HAVEN - Winter Haven Police officer Richard Ganey first started training in the traditional Japanese martial arts when he was 14. Now 37, Ganey is now going to be the director of Budokan of ...

Composer Gene Coleman, a Guggenheim-winning luminary in the worlds of experimental film and avant-garde music, is more the type to show up for a residency at a prestigious music festival rather than ...

The eighth edition of the Japanese Ambassador’s Cup Karate Tournament, held at Kigali Universe over the weekend, stood out as a major occasion for top karate athletes and officials to showcase ...

SAN DIEGO — The Friendship Bell on Shelter Island is a symbol of San Diego's close ties to Japan. Our sister city of Yokohama, Japan gave us the bell in the 1950s. In that same decade, karate was ...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — The Japan Karate Institute is hosting a Women's Self Defense Seminar in collaboration with Verde and local nonprofit Girls That Give. According to one of the ...