TOKYO – For Sakura Kokumai to step onto the mat at the famed Nippon Budokan with a chance for a bronze medal in karate’s Olympic debut is a storybook ending of its own. Kokumai is Japanese-American, ...

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 ...

TOKYO — Roughly eight centuries ago, a new martial art called karate came into being on a subtropical island now known as Okinawa. On Friday, an Okinawan won the first Olympic gold medal in men’s kata ...

Chattanooga, Tenn. - When life throws its toughest punches, some people fight back harder. For 18-year-old Joel Westbrook, that fight has led to history-making achievements in karate — and now a spot ...

Vasili Antokhii made history in the Karate Combat pit last night. Season 3 of Karate Combat is currently underway and Event 6 featured three fights, with Antokhii meeting Reda Messaoudi at ...

Joel Westbrook, a student at Green’s Karate for nearly a decade, is set to make U.S. Karate history. Mr. Westbrook, who competes in a wheelchair and has earned 40 gold medals, will become the first ...

BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Karate Combat, the world’s premier full contact striking league, set new reach and viewership records in August as it prepares to announce the ‘biggest ...