Chris Barone of Delaware Water Gap, left, gets some one-on-one instruction from Grand Master Kiichi Nakamoto, a 10th degree karate master from Okinawa, Japan. Nakamoto, who is considered to be one of ...

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 ...

Did you know that the Okinawans had their own form of Karate? The difference was explained by Hawaii Seibukan Karate master Masakazu Teruya. “Japanese Karate was derived as more as more of a highly ...

Master Al Wharton has recently been awarded the highest rank of tenth Dan (Judan) in Uechi Ryu Karate Do at Winterfest in Orlando, Florida. Wharton was presented with the highest rank in this Okinawan ...

Some interviews for this story were conducted in Japanese and translated by Sun Chronicle correspondent Juri Love, a native Japanese speaker. NORTH ATTLEBORO — A local karate school recently marked a ...

Sensei Ed Wojciechowski started his journey in karate nearly four decades ago not as a calling so much as a backup plan. “I was in bad shape,” Wojciechowski said. “I smoked. I drank a lot of coffee. I ...

COURTESY HAWAII KARATE MUSEUM A farewell gathering for Kentsu Yabu (in dark coat) in Nuuanu on Dec. 26, 1927. Yabu had arrived in April and taught karate on Oahu, Kauai and Maui. Select an option ...

At the corner of Seven Mile Road and West Outer Drive in northwest Detroit sits an unassuming 7,500-square-foot brick building called the Detroit Martial Arts Institute. The institute was founded by ...