Karate is one of the five new sports at this year’s Olympics in Tokyo. Karate competitions will take place between August 4 to 7. Karate means “empty hand” in Kanji. Many believe the sport originated ...

Japan showcased their control of kata as they made it into the women’s and men’s team finals at the Karate World Championships here. The Asian nation have dominated the team events and they do not ...

Eighteen athletes from the Japan Karate-Do Federation in Mission Viejo won 41 medals at the AAU National Karate Championships, July 4-7, in St. Charles, Ill. The athletes – children and adults – had ...

The schedule for the Tokyo Games features 33 sports, and four of those disciplines have never been contested at the Olympic level before. Surfing, skateboarding, karate and sport climbing are the ...

The women's solo "kata" competition kicked off karate's first foray into the Olympics on Thursday with the 10 karateka performing routines in a hushed, spectator-less Nippon Budokan arena, the ...

Judo teacher Ron Takeya, right, demonstrates a self-defense technique that is part of the goshin jutsu kata against his teammate Stephen Hall on Sunday at the Podium in Spokane. Takeya and Hall ...

A day after his compatriot conceded karate's maiden Olympic gold medal to her Spanish rival, Japan's Ryo Kiyuna looked set to collect the goods on Friday as he dominated the men's kata competition ...

Brynn and Haley Buskerud, dressed in their white gis, bowed deeply to each other and the audience before silently meeting each other in the middle of the mat for a USA Judo “kata” competition on ...

The 2nd European Games to be held in Minsk (Belarus) next June will represent a milestone for Karate: it will be the first time that the new Kata rules will be introduced in the Karate competition of ...