When Oshiro struggled to move in step, the instructor suggested she take some side lessons in karate — the martial art ...

From its roots in Okinawa when it was still known as the Ryukyu Kingdom between 1429 until 1879, karate spread to mainland Japan and later the world by karate masters from Okinawa. Today ...

There are said to be about 130 million karate practitioners worldwide. A group from Switzerland visited Okinawa in southwestern Japan on a package tour for a 10-day course in mid-April.

Japan's southernmost islands of Okinawa were once ruled by the independent ... This spirit survives today through the traditional kata or forms of karate, a martial art that evolved from the ...

Roughly 400-miles off the coast of Japan’s southernmost region of Kyushu, Okinawa has long been credited ... Okinawan cultural experiences, like karate, which originated here, and cooking ...

Although karate started in Japan's Okinawa and kung fu came from China, the makers of Karate Kid: Legends want to show us that they're closely related. The idea here is that both martil arts ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - On Jan. 8, 1900, 26 men arrived in Hawaii from Okinawa, Japan, as contract laborers for the sugar and pineapple plantations. This year marks the 125th anniversary of ...