Training in karate was not always easy for Nobuko Oshiro, who faced bullying and harsh treatment from her instructors as one ...

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.

From its roots in Okinawa when it was still known as the Ryukyu Kingdom between 1429 until 1879, karate spread to mainland Japan and later the world by karate masters from Okinawa. Today ...

Japan's southernmost islands of Okinawa were once ruled by the independent ... This spirit survives today through the traditional kata or forms of karate, a martial art that evolved from the ...

Roughly 400-miles off the coast of Japan’s southernmost region of Kyushu, Okinawa has long been credited ... Okinawan cultural experiences, like karate, which originated here, and cooking ...

The Overseas Vietnamese Association in Okinawa, Japan has organized the first International Cultural Exchange Festival in ...

You’ll still find the word Ryukyu throughout Naha, the sunny, cosmopolitan capital of Okinawa Island. While most of Japan is still shivering its way through March, Naha and its tanned locals are ...

Miss Haruko Ota, a third grade teacher, peeks over the shoulder of Brenda Sheets, 10, daughter of Master Sgt. and Mrs. W. G.

Mr. Miyagi teaches Daniel-San karate and life lessons in ... A quick plot recap: Miyagi's father in Okinawa dies, so Miyagi decides to fly to Japan. Since Ali dumped Daniel-San, he has no friends ...

However, a spokesman for the Okinawa Defense Bureau, an arm of Japan’s Ministry of Defense, said they left Okinawa in mid-October. “The bureau shared this information with Okinawa city ...

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