Janet Farrell said she wanted to help women feel confident A 73-year-old female ... "Every woman has a lioness in them, and my job is to bring it out." Lindsay Dolan said doing karate made her ...

Reaching the 5th dan rank when she was 45, Oshiro became the first woman to open her own dojo on Okinawa. The female ... martial arts,” she recalled. “I became convinced that karate came ...

She was 27 years old at the time. Today, at 77, Oshiro is the highest-ranked woman practicing karate in Okinawa. She’s also ...