Itosu-kai Japan releases the journal 3 times in a year, and it is lasting about 25 years.      Itosu Journal Vol.66 was issued in June 2019.

Although we can only speak for ourselves, from the time we joined Karate as young children we also learned about Japan. Japan and Karate wer

2019, 3-5 MAY A group from Spain traveled to Sweden to enjoy the seminar that our colleagues from Stockholm offered us in Stockholm. From Ja

Finally, after more than one year of preparations we were all gathered at Bosön, Sweden's largest training facility for elite sports. Ka

One absolute high-light was the opportunity to train at Itosu-ryu under Soke Sakagami. Wilhelm’s father and grandfather (!) accompanied him

On the 16th day of February 2019, Sensei Ken Kitaoka and Ayumu Oda taught at the JKI General training Camp at Honbu dojo City of Imus, Cavit

On February 24th, 2019, the 35th annual Itosu-kai East Japan Junior Karatedo Championships were held at Tsurumi University’s gymnasium.    

On February 24th, 2019, Itosu-kai Japan Kanto region group hosted the celebration of Soke Sakagami’s Kiju (77th birthday), and over 50 instr

The Danish branch was celebrating the day with a practice 28-Feb starting at 17:00 Danish time which actually is 01-Mar, 01:00 Japanese time

“Kaiho Itosu” (Itosu-kai Journal) vol 65 was published in January 2019. It is Itosu-kai Japan’s official news magazine and it is issued thre

The Danish girl, Frederikke Bjerring, won 3 rounds at the WKF senior World Championships beating Algeria, Australia and Azerbaijan ending am

On January 6th, 2019, the 58th annual “Winter Beach Training” was held at Enoshima Beach, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan. The members of Kanto d

Although it was still new year’s holiday, my sensei, Shihan Ara, opened his private dojo and allow us to practice. I really appreciate it. U

In 2019 Itosu-kai Sweden will arrange a Black Belt Seminar 3-5th of May. We are very proud to have Soke Saadaki Sakagami as instructor and g

Season’s Greetings from Itosu-kai Denmark

A total 25 athletes and 3 officials represented from Sri Lanka for the 13th Itosu-kai Kyushu District karatedo championship, which was held

After that, Soke Sakagami conducted the class, and he taught Bassai Sho at first. We usually practice Bassai-dai a lot but we have relativel

My most recent trip to Japan was a mixture of work and fun. Working for the International Olympic Committee has brought me to many cool plac

For the seventh time, Kaizen Karate Do in Kolding, Denmark held the Kaizen Danish Open tournament, and again this year we had a record numbe

At the honbu dojo (headquarters,) I practiced “Rohai Shodan” and “Matsumora Rohai” under the instruction of Soke Sakagami. It was such a gre