Reaching the 5th dan rank when she was 45, Oshiro became the first woman to open her own dojo on Okinawa. The female karate master has witnessed the gradual changes the traditional martial art ...

From its roots in Okinawa when it was still known as the Ryukyu Kingdom between 1429 until 1879, karate spread to mainland Japan and later the world by karate masters from Okinawa. Today ...