Excelling at karate starts with your outfit. You need to tie the loops of your suit correctly - not easy for a beginner. Terumitsu Taira helps learners out until the snow-white suit no longer slips.

LANSING — Seikichi Iha was a son of Okinawa and a Lansing treasure. He was born in 1932 on the small island prefecture less than 500 miles south of mainland Japan. He lived through the Battle of ...

The Japanese Okinawa islands have the biggest population of living centenarians in the world, and apart from the climate and healthy lifestyle, the martial art of Karate, that was born here, may have ...

CAMP KINSER, Okinawa — About 200 Camp Kinser-based Marines got some hands-on training Friday with five karate-do champions. The Marines — from two combat logistics regiments of the 3rd Marine ...

The 2023 Australia Okinawa Goju-Ryu Karate-Do Federation (AOGKF) National Gasshuku and Championships is hitting Veolia Arena from Friday to Sunday, November 17-19.

ATLANTA -- Rebel yells gave way to kiai (fighting shouts) when over 1,000 karate enthusiasts from five continents gathered in Atlanta recently for the Okinawa Karate-do World Championships. Organized ...

Shripad Mahajan (48) and Neeraj Kulkarmi (32), secured the seventh and ninth position. They were part of a 10-member contingent of Isshinryu Karate and Kubodo Association of India (IKKAI) from Pune.

Okinawa—with its 160 islands, only 47 of which are inhabited, surrounded by the East China Sea and the Pacific Ocean—may be among the smallest of Japan’s major prefectures. But what it lacks in size ...