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.

Soke Sakagami visited Denmark in May, 2019 After the seminar in Sweden, Soke Sakagami came to Denmark. The visit was mainly to inspect the v

USA Karate Academy of Shoreline, Washington, just north of Seattle is celebrating their 25th Anniversary. The dojo's founder, Joni Sha

Congratulations to all Philippine Itosu-ryu students!  Held last May 21, 2019 at JKI Philippines honbu dojo awarded by Mr. Rheinan B. Manzo

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

It was in the autumn of 2018 that it started. I had reached the 1 kyu level in the spring. In my mind it thought it would take at least a ye

In early May, Itosu-kai Sweden had the great honor of having Soke Sakagami visiting the Swedish branch. This was the first time that Soke wa

Our visit started by a warm welcome by Soke Sakagami. After introducing ourselves we were invited to the main room of the dojo, perfectly po

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

Training at the Itosu-kai headquarters in Tsurumi Yokohama with sensei Sakagami is always a pleasure, so being able to be guided through Mat

Sensei Oda introduced Itosu-ryu Official Basic Kata 1 – 10 to everybody, and he also corrected Pinan kata and showed the applications to jun

I'm very proud, as the chief instructor of Itosu-Ryu Karate-Do Malaysia Branch, that I took the high ranking belt test (6th Dan Degree)

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

Josephine Christiansen (Dragoer dojo) did a fantastic job in the kata female cadet division. She finished number 5 - barely missing the bron

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