Sensei Bob Smith has been attending the World Budosai karate festival hosted by the International Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karate-Do Federation in Okinawa, Japan, since 1991. However in July, he was ...

GEORGE NEWS - Southern Cape Okinawa Goju Ryu Karate Kyokai recently held its annual black belt gashuku and dan grading at the George shibu dojo under the leadership of sensei Jannie le Grange, shibu ...

The IOGKF (International Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karate-do Federation) world chief instructor, Tetsuji Nakamura Sensei, Eighth Dan, will be amongst those sharing their expertise, alongside the likes of vice ...

CAMP HANSEN, Okinawa — The Marines’ seaborne quick-reaction force on Okinawa now has a dedicated support group, the latest step toward transforming the service’s forces to counter China in ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — The third indictment of a U.S. service member on sexual assault charges this year prompted fresh complaints from an Okinawa city this week. Nago City Assembly approved a ...

Toward the end of World War Two, Okinawa was pounded by a huge amount of ordnance, estimated at a total of around 200,000 tons. About 10,000 tons of it is thought not to have exploded.

Instead, Okinawa officials in Washington, D.C., told Military.com that troops would no longer be able to drink between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. off base. The statement couched the change as part of "a ...

Maui held its first Okinawan festival in 5 years to great success Saturday, an event that many in Maui’s aging Okinawan ...

Jenna Ryu is a Lifestyle Writer at SELF Magazine based in New York, where she covers topics ranging from beauty to mental health to relationships. She received her B.A. in psychology and ...

The 86-year-old Japanese woman from Okinawa, a resident of the Vila Carrao district of this metropolis, has only her thumb and pinkie finger on that hand--the rest are damaged, missing partly or ...

TOKYO -- A wave of misleading videos aimed at stirring up sentiment for the independence of Japan's southernmost prefecture, Okinawa, has been spreading across social media, with nearly 200 ...

Hawaiʻi resident Jon Itomura, a third-generation Okinawan, remembers his grandmother listening to the radio in an unfamiliar language when he was younger. At the time, he thought maybe the ...