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 Director of the Karate Sector of the Italian Federation of Judo, Karate, Wrestling and Martial Arts (FIJLKAM), Davide Benetello, has been named a recipient of the 2025 Commendations by the ...
WINTER HAVEN - Winter Haven Police officer Richard Ganey first started training in the traditional Japanese martial arts when he was 14. Now 37, Ganey is now going to be the director of Budokan of ...
DONGAN HILLS -- At 74 years of age and 120 pounds, Keigo Abe stood in front of the contingent at the Legend Karate dojo in Dongan Hills, calling out short, staccato commands in Japanese. Next to him, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Karate expert Atsushi Aoki fought of a bear using hand-to-hand combat If there was ever a time and place that Atsushi Aoki thought his years of karate training would come in useful, it probably wasn’t ...
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