Late last summer, renowned Karate instructor Takeshi Kitagawa made a decision to leave his native Japan for the United States when his wife, Mimi Chusid, an American, who had studied at Kitagawa's ...

SAN DIEGO — The Friendship Bell on Shelter Island is a symbol of San Diego's close ties to Japan. Our sister city of Yokohama, Japan gave us the bell in the 1950s. In that same decade ...

TOKYO — The ancient martial art of Karate made its debut at the Summer Olympics in Japan this week. The sport was added as a nod to the country where it developed 700 years ago. There are two ...