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 ...

Three days of karate were held at the Nippon Budokan in the Japanese capital in August, but the sport has not kept its Olympic place for Paris 2024. Since then the WKF has sought to promote its first ...

Japan's Ryo Kiyuna took men's kata karate gold on Friday, demonstrating his supremacy in the martial art form that originated in his native Okinawa a day after his compatriot conceded karate's maiden ...

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 ...

Nearly 300 athletes from 50 countries are registered to participate in the event, which was scheduled to be hosted by Tashkent in Uzbekistan before being moved to Cairo in June. Home hero Feryal ...