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 ...

I’m elated.”Mr Smith, a sixth degree black belt in Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karate, said he attended the first Miyagi Chojun Festival in San Diego in 1989.Named after the creator of Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karate, ...

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 ...

The grand opening of the new Yamashita International Training Center at 104 Cambridge St. in Midland will be from 1 to 4 p.m. Jan. 14. The training center is the result of a dream of Ragnar Avery, a ...

LANSING — Seikichi Iha was a son of Okinawa and a Lansing treasure. He was born in 1932 on the small island prefecture less than 500 miles south of mainland Japan. He lived through the Battle of ...

Ryo Kiyuna, a three-time individual world champion, hails from Okinawa, where karate was developed centuries ago. By Ken Belson and Enya Toyama TOKYO — Every city that hosts the Olympics pushes for ...

ROLLINSFORD — A Dover native will achieve the highest rank ever held by a Westerner in an ancient Okinawan martial art, to be bestowed upon him during a special public demonstration planned for ...

Black belts in karate, and in the movies, have become a dime a dozen. Yuji Okumoto, a third-generation Japanese-American, is a brown belt who plays a black-belted villain in ”The Karate Kid II.” He is ...