Carria is 72 years old and originally from Rhode Island. He started learning the Okinawan style of karate at 16 years old in his hometown of Cumberland. As a young Marine a few years later ...

She was awarded the hanshi 9th dan status last year, a first for a female karateka on Okinawa, as a result of her prolonged period of teachings and training. Oshiro remembers her karate mentor ...

We move over to the lawn of the Okinawa Karate Kaikan training and museum complex where Taira set up two cement blocks and laid a layer of roof tiles over the space between them. The tiles are not ...

Its popularity has surged following the inclusion, and an increasing number of karate fans all over the world are visiting Okinawa to learn the martial art in its birth place. There are said to be ...

Kobayashi Shōrin-ryū Karate is one of the major branches of traditional Okinawan karate, tracing its lineage back to the ...

The men, both Okinawans, have been identified as Kanei Uechi (1911-1991), who taught Uechi Ryu karate, a traditional style of Okinawan karate, and Kaei Akamine (1908-1977), a businessman who ...