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.

URASOE, Okinawa Prefecture--Nobuko Oshiro didn't back off when her instructor of an Okinawan-style dance suggested that she take karate to improve her dance steps. “I found that a karate dojo ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Okinawa is Japan's southernmost prefecture. Once an independent Ryukyu Kingdom, this beautiful chain of subtropical islands has its own traditions of dance, crafts, music, and karate. The ancient ...