“I found that a karate dojo constituted a male-dominated community, though,” Oshiro said, looking back when she started learning the martial art when she was 28. “I often heard others remark ...

That is the question that will follow the Japanese martial ... that shocked the World Karate Federation given karate's popularity in France, where the Olympics will have surfing, climbing and ...

Enter the Sekai Taikai, the worldwide karate tournament involving every major karate dojo in the world ... with the first edition taking place in Tokyo in 1970 and the most recent one taking ...

An investigation into the positive impact of karate’s debut in Tokyo 2020 has raised hopes ... Ryo Kiyuna of Japan, Jovana Prekovic of Serbia and Steven Dacosta from France will be competing.

Karate is one of the sports that have been added to the Olympics, and will appear for the first time in the Tokyo Games next year ... Okinawa in southwestern Japan on a package tour for a 10 ...

But Tokyo 2020 was a proud moment for all the people who worked hard to spread the karate spirit of peace from Okinawa to the rest of Japan and then to the world.

In junior high school, Shimada, 21, joined the same karate dojo ... Tokyo. From its roots in Okinawa when it was still known as the Ryukyu Kingdom between 1429 until 1879, karate spread to ...

Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Karate - Women's Individual Kata - Gold medal match - Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan - August 5, 2021. Sandra Sanchez of Spain competes. REUTERS/Carl Recine Karate officially ...