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.

Japan's southernmost islands of Okinawa were ... This spirit survives today through the traditional kata or forms of karate, a martial art that evolved from the bare-handed fighting styles of ...

There are said to be about 130 million karate practitioners worldwide. A group from Switzerland visited Okinawa in southwestern Japan on a package tour for a 10-day course in mid-April.

MEMBERS of Yamaguchi Goju-Kai Karate-Do in Grays had an impressive showing at the English Kyu Grade Championships held at ...

URASOE, Okinawa Prefecture--Nobuko Oshiro didn't back off when her instructor of an Okinawan-style dance suggested that she take karate to improve her dance steps. “I found that a karate dojo ...