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.

A Bermudian martial arts expert celebrated a milestone when he officiated as an instructor at the home of karate in Japan. Sensei Bob Smith has been attending the World Budosai karate festival hosted ...

TOKYO — The ancient martial art of Karate made its debut at the Summer Olympics in Japan this week. The sport was added as a nod to the country where it developed 700 years ago. There are two types of ...

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The students of Wado Ryu Karate wrapped up an exceptional year of training and competition with two events to close out the 2025 season. Over the past several weeks, the local dojo’s athletes faced ...

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 World Karate Organization Shinkyokushinkai Karate Guam will host the 2018 World Champion Karate Seminar on Jan. 26 and 27. The special guest instructors are WKO President and fifth World Open ...

Steven H. Lee has been training in Japanese full-contact karate for more than 30 years. He started training in full-contact karate during high school in the US and has been in Hong Kong for more than ...

LAFAYETTE — University of Louisiana at Lafayette professor Holly Damico said “sayonara” to the U.S. this week and headed off to Japan to show off her skills in the karate equivalent of the Olympic ...