("Kara" means "Chinese"; "te" means "hand".) The development of modern karate under Gichin Funakoshi Gichin Funakoshi (right) was born in Okinawa in 1868, the same year as Japan's Meiji Restoration.

Mark Strydom graded to seventh dan in karate. Mark Strydom recently competed in Japan where he represented the country in the Gichin Funakoshi Cup. In April, he traveled to Okinawa in Japan for ...

became a four-time world kata champion after he ruled the 60 to 64 years old individual men's kata in the Funakoshi Gichin Cup 16th Karate World Championship Tournament held at Takasaki Arena in ...

Best Karate series By Masatoshi Nakayama Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1977-87 Each volume approx. 135 pages Sensei Nakayama, 9th dan, was Chief Instructor of the JKA from 1955 until his death in ...