A 400-year-old Japanese martial arts practice has made it to the Greater Gardener area thanks to Mike Caruso's passion. Caruso has trained for over 17 years in the Japanese staff and sword practice, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TOKYO (AP) — Japanese actor Sonny Chiba, who ...

While continuing to hone his martial arts, earning black belts in ninjitsu, shorinji kempo, judo, kendo, and goju-ryu karate, Chiba also took his talents to the screen with his memorable turn with his ...

TOKYO (AP) — A popular Japanese professional wrestler and lawmaker Antonio Inoki, who faced a world boxing champion Muhammad Ali in a mixed martial arts match in 1976, has died at 79. Inoki brought ...

TOKYO — Japanese actor Sonny Chiba, who wowed the world with his martial arts skills in more than 100 films, including “Kill Bill,” has died. He was 82. Chiba, known in Japan as Shinichi Chiba, died ...

Actor and martial arts legend Shinichi "Sonny" Chiba has died at the age of 82. According to Oricon News, the screen star had been battling COVID-19, which led to him being admitted into a hospital in ...