Karate is one of Japan's most revered martial traditions, and is one of the many facets of Japanese culture that hold universal appeal and have been embraced worldwide. Part of karate's appeal lies in ...

Japan's Ryo Kiyuna took men's kata karate gold on Friday, demonstrating his supremacy in the martial art form that originated in his native Okinawa a day after his compatriot conceded karate's maiden ...

Four new sports made their debut at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics: karate, skateboarding, surfing and climbing. But for Japan, it was karate and skateboarding – and the breakthrough performances of ...

Japan secured their place at the top of the medal table at the 2016 Karate World Championships after claiming both the men’s and women’s team kata titles on the final day of action here. The men’s ...

LITTLE ROCK — The Katas: The Meaning Behind the Movements, by Kenji Tokitsu, translated by Jack Cain (Inner Traditions paperback, October 2010), 192 pages with index, $16.95. When I first heard about ...

Four Japanese karatekas will contest the kata finals at the fifth and final Karate 1-Premier League event of the season in the German cities of Halle and Leipzig after the Asian nation dominated the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Karate has finally made its Olympic debut at the Tokyo 2020 Games and Japan has now won two medals in the new Olympic sport. Just yesterday, karateka Kiyou Shimizu won the silver medal in the women’s ...

Karate is one of Japan's most revered martial traditions, and is one of the many facets of Japanese culture that hold universal appeal and have been embraced worldwide. Part of karate's appeal lies in ...

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 ...