Chris Barone of Delaware Water Gap, left, gets some one-on-one instruction from Grand Master Kiichi Nakamoto, a 10th degree karate master from Okinawa, Japan. Nakamoto, who is considered to be one 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 ...

A local food expert gives the culinary lowdown on the rugged region located a few hours north from Tokyo by bullet train, famed for its wagyu beef, prize-worthy summer fruits, and variety of fresh ...

Did you know that the Okinawans had their own form of Karate? The difference was explained by Hawaii Seibukan Karate master Masakazu Teruya. “Japanese Karate was derived as more as more of a highly ...

Some interviews for this story were conducted in Japanese and translated by Sun Chronicle correspondent Juri Love, a native Japanese speaker. NORTH ATTLEBORO — A local karate school recently marked a ...

NEW PALTZ - Plenty of karate kicking, chopping and punching took place at the New Paltz High School gymnasium on Sunday. More than 200 karate students, many of them black belts from the mid-Hudson, ...