Reaching the 5th dan rank when she was 45, Oshiro became the first woman to open her own dojo on Okinawa. The female karate master has witnessed the gradual changes the traditional martial art ...

Its objective was to master techniques in the birth place ... from 9 AM to noon daily for 10 days at the Okinawa Karate Kaikan, which opened in 2017. Their instructor was 63-year-old Yusuke ...

From its roots in Okinawa when it was still known as the Ryukyu Kingdom between 1429 until 1879, karate spread to mainland Japan and later the world by karate masters from Okinawa. Today ...