ONE SAMURAI 1 set a high standard for martial arts excellence when it shook Tokyo this past April. Now, the world’s largest martial arts organization returns to the Japanese capital for its highly ...

In 1908, karate risked vanishing forever as Japan dismissed it as outdated and chaotic. One Okinawan master, Itosu Anko, ...

Arunachal Pradesh's Khyoda Talik won the team kata gold medal at the South Asian Senior Karate Championships 2026 in Dhaka, ...

K-1 has added Mona Kimura vs. Marine Nicol to its K-1 DONTAKU 2026 lineup, with the women’s flyweight contest set for July 20 ...

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You’ve probably watched a martial arts movie and seen karate students dressed in different colors. What do these colors denote, and are they all the same? The simple answer is they are not. In Karate, ...

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.

One of the five sports added to the programme at Tokyo 2020, karate finally saw its Olympic pursuit that spanned several decades come to fruition. In 2015, the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee proposed ...