Reporting from Busan, South Korea — Buddhist monk Ando remembers the toil of all those years, trying to satisfy the training demands of an aging martial arts master who could never be pleased. Silent ...

Her hands move in a blur. Then they stop, frozen like stone. Sakura Kokumai is 27 years old and could be America’s best hope for a medal in karate at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo. She has a menacing ...

Daniel LaRusso's Karate Kid learning at the hands of Mr. Miyagi is perhaps one of the most iconic aspects the movie thanks to the unconventional training methods of the sensei. Mr. Miyagi was always a ...

Tetsuhiro Hokama, known to his students as “Hokama Sensei,” using the Japanese honorific for “teacher,” has taught old-style Okinawan karate in his home country of Japan as well as Europe, Africa and ...

Yesterday we briefly examined the strange history of contemporary bear wrestling. But in the 1950s, Kyokushinkai Karate pioneer — and trainer of such luminaries as actor Sonny Chiba — Masutatsu Oyama ...

QUANTICO, Va.--Capt. Louis E. Isabelle is in the ring, pounding furiously at Staff Sgt. Clive D. Mitchell. Fending off most of the blows with his heavy gloves, the sergeant gives as good as he gets. A ...

The term "karate master" conjures a strange duality of notions. To one person, the phrase "karate master" evokes images of the comic character in an action film who sweeps his hands in bladed motions ...

Her hands move in a blur. Then they stop, frozen like stone. Sakura Kokumai is 27 years old and could be America’s best hope for a medal in karate at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo. She has a menacing ...