For over 50 years, the Santa Clara University Shotokan Karate club has been training dedicated students in this Japanese-based martial arts form. Read about the club's founders here. Since its ...

Soon, it consumed him. Shotokan is one of four Japanese styles of karate, created by calligrapher Gichin Funakoshi in the mid-19th Century. The biggest differences between shotokan and the more ...

"In Japan, kids train karate all day long ... Sensei Oshima took what he learned in Tokyo and brought it to the United States. "Shotokan Karate was started in Southern California in 1955 by ...

Master Gichin Funakoshi introduced modern "karate-do" from Okinawa to mainland Japan in the early 20th century. His method became known as Shotokan (literally "House of Shoto," Funakoshi's pen ...

karate clubs were prevalent at Japanese universities. Gichin Funakoshi, founder of Shotokan karate, built his first dojo near Tokyo in 1936. Karate training in front of Shuri Castle ...

AILSA CHANG, HOST: He taught at the Philadelphia Shotokan Karate Club and was a 10th-degree black belt. In 1961, he moved to America from Japan. His teacher sent him as sort of a karate ambassador ...