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 ...

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 ...

When Anthony Mirakian began teaching karate in Watertown, he couldn’t have guessed he would still be teaching here 50 years later. He had recently returned from serving in the Air Force in Okinawa — ...

Students of longtime karate sensei Anthony Mirakian said goodbye to the martial arts mainstay a few months ago when he passed away at the age of 82. More than just a teacher, Mirakian was a martial ...

A 15-year-old karate prodigy who attained his junior black belt in 2017 at age ten is now his teacher’s first student to reach advanced junior black belt below the age of 18. Zachary Bishop has now ...

Shripad Mahajan (48) and Neeraj Kulkarmi (32), secured the seventh and ninth position. They were part of a 10-member contingent of Isshinryu Karate and Kubodo Association of India (IKKAI) from Pune.