OBIHIRO, JAPAN – Mastering a sport from another culture can feel like an overwhelming challenge — one that many find is best ...

The world’s best martial artists are facing off in Tokyo, stepping onto a stage with hundreds of years of history. On the 3rd Hour of TODAY, senior international correspondent Keir Simmons reports on ...

It’s a chilly evening in Emeryville, where half-a-dozen martial arts students at a community center are practicing with katana. They kneel, jump and slash, then slowly mimic wiping blood off their ...

Kristy Ambrose has been writing professionally since 2010. She dabbles in various genres, but her favorites are fantasy and science fiction. She creates everything from fanfiction to serialized novels ...

The 2020 Tokyo Olympics featured six forms of martial arts competition. For one of them, karate, it was a significant homecoming. Japan’s Ryo Kiyuna won the gold medal in the men’s kata, a display of ...

Style practices taught include diet, sleep, walk and sit. LANCASTER − An extensively trained martial arts instructor has opened a studio teaching a unique practice in Lancaster. Harold Stewart is a ...

With the games set for Japan, the martial art will at last debut at next month’s competition Tony Perrottet; Photographs by Jun Tsuboike Yakumo Academy High School karate team members practice a kata.

There’s nothing quite like starting your afternoon by getting thrown across a mat. Welcome to ASCL 61.10: Japanese Martial Arts, a course I’m taking this summer that meets twice a week in the ...