80 competitors will take part in the event which has been included for the Olympic games in 2020. At 78, sensei Masahiro Nakamoto has been waiting decades for this decision, insisting there is far ...

Mori also reiterated that staging the postponed Games in the Japanese capital is a "must for humanity" and represents a "beacon of hope for all the world". The former Prime Minister of Japan’s ...

Espinos has been the President of the WKF since 1998, and a year later the sport became officially recognised by the IOC. He is determined to keep going until they finally make it onto the programme, ...

Karate made its long-awaited Olympic debut Thursday, one of four new sports at the Tokyo 2020 Games, where athletes are fighting to win not only gold but to secure the sport’s future as an Olympic ...

TOKYO - Karate had its long-awaited moment at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics last week but does it deserve a place in future Games? That is the question that will follow the Japanese martial arts' governing ...

Ariel Torres picked up the first-ever Olympic medal for the United States in karate Friday, taking one of the two bronze awarded in in men’s kata. While he can thank skill and training, he apparently ...

Uncrowned is a new destination for all things MMA, boxing, wrestling, and more, featuring Ariel Helwani. TOKYO — Ariel Torres was a high school senior stuck in a journalism class when, on an ...

TOKYO, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Karate had its long-awaited moment at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics last week but does it deserve a place in future Games? That is the question that will follow the Japanese martial ...