Chris Barone of Delaware Water Gap, left, gets some one-on-one instruction from Grand Master Kiichi Nakamoto, a 10th degree karate master from Okinawa, Japan. Nakamoto, who is considered to be one of ...

Harry Seisho Nakasone, a Honolulu resident who studied in Japan and became a master of classical Okinawan music, died March 19 in Honolulu. He was 99. Nakasone was a grand master of classical ...

When Anthony Mirakian began teaching karate in Watertown, he couldn’t have guessed he would still be teaching here 50 years later. He had recently returned from serving in the Air Force in Okinawa — ...

Small but dangerous. Harmless-looking yet powerful. If that's your image of the average martial artist, Alan Dollar is the last person you want to meet. At 6 feet 4 and 225 pounds, and as the highest ...

Memories of Jack LaLanne and jumping jacks come to mind when one thinks of 1966 and fitness, but right along with him was John Porta. Sensei John Porta opened Porta's Karate-Do and Kobudo Academy in ...

TOKYO, Jan. 22. MARTHA Stanton of the Okinawa Dolphins set a Japanese Masters national record last Sunday at the 2002 New Year's Masters Swim Meet in Tokyo. The meet, held at the 25-meter Urayasu City ...