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 ...

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 ...

Karate is on the brink of hitting its zenith, as it prepares to make its Olympic debut in the Tokyo 2020 Games Danielle Demetriou moved from London to Japan in 2007. After 15 years in Tokyo, she now ...

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 ...

Hyderabad: The Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karate-Do Gasshuku (Training Camp) is being organized by Shihan Yoshinori Yonesato, 7th Black Belt, TOGKF Honbu Dojo Instructor and Uchi Deshi of Higaonna ...

Two residents of Pune have made it to the top 10 in the world at the first Okinawa International Karate and Kubodo (weapon) Tournament held in Naha city, Okinawa, Japan, during the first week of ...