An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the ...

When John Carria is not serving as the site director for the Eygelshoven Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 worksite, he can often ...

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.

Traditional Okinawa karate is nothing like sports karate ... They are tireless in their corrections of my posture. In Japan, patience is a core value and high virtue. "Imagine an opponent ...

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 ...

But Tokyo 2020 was a proud moment for all the people who worked hard to spread the karate spirit of peace from Okinawa to the rest of Japan and then to the world.

Eighty years ago, on April 1, a Sunday in 1945, seven troop divisions, four Army, three Marine, landed on the beaches of ...