Mark Tomé, who runs a karate dojo in downtown Manhattan called Evolutionary ... while tour operators take foreign visitors to monuments to old Okinawan masters and quirky shrines, such as a ...

who owned karate schools in New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania. “It was like the old days in Japan.” Early on, Schulmann and Mehrkar stormed into a rival dojo that was shit-talking them ...

“I found that a karate dojo constituted a male-dominated community, though,” Oshiro said, looking back when she started learning the martial art when she was 28. “I often heard others remark ...

In 1972, as a 9-year-old girl, she was enrolled in ballet and tap classes until the dance studio relocated and a karate dojo moved in. Curious, she decided to give it a try. “I had no idea where ...