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 ...

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.

RANCHO PENASQUITOS — When Gakuji Tozaki, 12, of RanchoPenasquitos left last month for the All-Japan Karate Championshipsin Tokyo, he had just moved up to the brown-belt level. When he returned, he ...

Ryo Kiyuna, a three-time individual world champion, hails from Okinawa, where karate was developed centuries ago. By Ken Belson and Enya Toyama TOKYO — Every city that hosts the Olympics pushes for ...

The 2020 Tokyo Olympics featured six forms of martial arts competition. For one of them, karate, it was a significant homecoming. Japan’s Ryo Kiyuna won the gold medal in the men’s kata, a display of ...

SYDNEY (AP) — Japan-born Tsuneari Yahiro is heading to Tokyo as Australia’s first karate Olympian. Yahiro will compete in the 75-kilogram kumite division as the sport makes its Olympic debut as a ...

A Rancho Penasquitos youngster isn’t taking long to make animpression in the karate world. Gakuji Tozaki, 12, a seventh-grader at Mesa Verde Middle School,takes off Thursday morning for Tokyo to ...

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - JANUARY 06: Martial artist Sakura Kokumai performs during a Panasonic press event for CES 2020 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center on January 6, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. CES, ...

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 — ...

TOKYO — In a small, famed, mostly empty arena here, an Olympic sport came and went. Karate was never an Olympic sport before. It is not scheduled to be an Olympic sport again. But Japan wanted it, and ...

Eight senseis have taught students Miyagi-Do karate in Cobra Kai and The Karate Kid movies. Along with Cobra Kai, Miyagi-Do is one of the two primary dojos in The Karate Kid and Cobra Kai saga. Miyagi ...