Dojo in Minato Ward, Tokyo, Japan. Stanislav Horuna, 37, a former Ukrainian national karate team member, stepped in as a ...

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 — ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 exact history of karate as we know it is unknown, but it is believed that the roots of it date back thousands of years. Okinawa, Japan, is regarded as the home and birthplace of karate, though it ...