A pair of bears picked the wrong person to mess with Thursday in Japan when they approached a 50-year-old karate practitioner only to be kicked away, police and media said, marking the latest in a ...

This is one of Japan's highest honours, bestowed upon individuals and groups with outstanding achievements in international fields. The commendation recognises Benetello's lifelong dedication to the ...

Vincent Kilroy, who is 60 years old, officially returned to teach the wider community the art of Japanese Shotokan karate ...

Japan won five of the available 12 gold medals at the penultimate Karate 1-Premier League event of the year in Fukuoka ©WKF Grand winner Hikaru Ono provided the first Japanese gold at the Fukuoka ...

Karate originated as a martial art in fourteenth-century Okinawa. In the upcoming Olympics, karate will be included for the first time, with two divisions of competition: one for kata (forms) and one ...