Martial arts were honed by ancient warriors ... Principles like internal harmony and self-discipline are core tenets. In Japan, arts like karate blended self-defense techniques from Okinawa ...

To experience taiko is to witness lively shouts and choreographed movements from performers that mirror those of various Japanese martial arts. Here, however, blind content maker Lucy Edwards ...

are not ancient but arose in the 1920s. Japan officially recognized karate as a martial art only 86 years ago. And its origins are not in mainland Japan at all: It was born in the archipelago of ...

What started with just a handful of people trying to learn an ancient art turned into decades of study, and a community of ...

THIES, Senegal, June 14 (Reuters) - In a dusty alleyway in the Senegalese city of Thies, Japanese wrestler Shogo Uozumi lay face-down in the sand after being tossed in the air by an oversized ...

And this Irish martial art, which dates back more than 500 years, was once as central to national identity as kung fu in China or Samurai jiu-jitsu in Japan. From its 16th Century origins, ...