There is a prevailing tendency among Chiba’s biographers to overstress the fingerprint left on his career by Quentin Tarantino (AP) An icon of Japanese cinema, Shinichi Chiba – better known ...

He won’t get boo. A boozed-up karate expert in Japan shattered the jaw of a worker dressed as a ghost because he got startled at a haunted house — then took the spooky theme park to court and lost, ...

Late last summer, renowned Karate instructor Takeshi Kitagawa made a decision to leave his native Japan for the United States when his wife, Mimi Chusid, an American, who had studied at Kitagawa's ...

The term "karate master" conjures a strange duality of notions. To one person, the phrase "karate master" evokes images of the comic character in an action film who sweeps his hands in bladed motions ...

NAGAOKA, Japan (AP) — She has a soft spot for Duffy the Disney Bear and her favorite food is chocolate. She does her homework before dinner but really loves skateboarding, playing video games and ...

A MARTIAL arts super-star from Port Glasgow has achieved two of the greatest honours in karate after years of dedication. Care home worker Tom Jacob returned from this year's International Karate ...

Karate originated in Okinawa, Japan, inspired famous martial arts movies, and influenced Hollywood. Top-rated martial arts ...

Some interviews for this story were conducted in Japanese and translated by Sun Chronicle correspondent Juri Love, a native Japanese speaker. NORTH ATTLEBORO — A local karate school recently marked a ...

The robot cowboys and saloon girls of “Westworld” met their match when the HBO show, now in its second season, revealed the parallel universe of Shogun World. But ninjas and geishas programmed with ...

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 ...