Wayne Wickizer poses for a photo in his Ogden home on February 22, 2016. Wickizer has been practicing karate since 1958 when he was stationed in Japan, and was recently promoted to a 7th degree black ...

Kimio Nelson, owner of Nelson’s Fighting Tigers Martial Arts, was recently appointed as a senior technical advisor for the ...

Mike Griffith, a 21-year-old who lives in Sugar Land, has earned a second-degree black belt at Dai-Ichi Shotokan Karate-Do. The accomplishment is perhaps doubly impressive because he has autism and ...

Teruyuki Okazaki, a famous Shotokan karate master and the founder of the International Shotokan Karate Federation, died of a suspected case of COVID-19 last month. More than 3,800 people in ...

SAN DIEGO — The Friendship Bell on Shelter Island is a symbol of San Diego's close ties to Japan. Our sister city of Yokohama, Japan gave us the bell in the 1950s. In that same decade, karate was ...