A dojo from a Durban township will represent the country on the world stage after being called up to participate in the prestigious Shinkyokushinkai karate world championships in Japan next month.

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 ...

Late last summer, renowned Karate instructor Takeshi Kitagawa made a decision to leave his native Japan for the United States when his wife, Mimi Chusid, an American, who had studied at Kitagawa's ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO — The Friendship Bell on Shelter Island is a symbol of San Diego's close ties to Japan. Our sister city of Yokohama, Japan gave us the bell in the 1950s. In that same decade, karate was ...

TOKYO: From Cobra Kai to Chuck Norris, karate is known around the world -- but practitioners of the Japanese martial art are hoping the Tokyo Olympics can bring an even wider audience. After decades ...