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, karate ...