A group from Switzerland visited Okinawa in southwestern Japan on a package tour ... She always wanted to learn the original form of karate in its birth place. More than 60 students, both male ...

Four children and four parents swap the stresses of life in modern-day Britain for three weeks in Japan, being taught the traditional martial art of karate by the best teachers in the world.

In Japanese, it means empty hands. Tsuneari Yahiro is an Australian karate champion; he began learning karate when he was nine with his elder brother. “One day, when I came back from school ...

karate spread to mainland Japan and later the world by karate masters from Okinawa. Today, about 100 million enthusiasts enjoy the martial art globally. According to the Okinawa prefectural board ...