Los Angeles 2028Olympic Games Yesterday, the LA28 Organizing Committee notified me that it was scheduled for the end of May. The announcement of the results of the primary selection of additional events has been postponed to June.

Los Angeles 2028Olympic Games It’s around this time that the WKF has been asked if they have given up on returning to the Olympics since the removal of karate from the Paris 2024 Games. The facts are completely different.IOC, LA28 … Continue reading →

Karate is out of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games Karate was excluded from the competition at the IOC Executive Board meeting held recently, following the Tokyo Olympics.The road to continuous implementation has been closed.In February 2019, the Paris Organizing Committee … Continue reading →

Environment surrounding WKF COVID-19 is once again rampant all over the world. Unfortunately, the Premier League (Moscow) and Youth League (Venice), which were scheduled to be held this year, have been canceled, and in 2020, all games were canceled or … Continue reading →

Karate1 Premier League – Paris 2017 (2017/1/27-29 Paris, France) #Kumite ♦Female Kumite -50Kg [1st] Miyahara Miho (JPN) [2nd] Tadano Ayaka (JPN) [3rd] Tokcan Umay (TUR) / Ozcelik Serap (TUR) ♦Female Kumite -55Kg [1st] Khaksar Taravat (IRI) [2nd] Connell Amy (SCO) … Continue reading →

The World Karate Federation reacted with delight at the announcement of the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee to support the proposal to include Karate to the programme of the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020. The Executive Board of … Continue reading →

Karate1 Premier League – Rotterdam 2016 (2016/3/19-20 Rotterdam, Netherlands) #Kumite ♦Female Kumite -50Kg [1st] Recchia Alexandra (FRA) [2nd] Kryva Kateryna (UKR) [3rd] Sari Srunita (INA) / Sánchez Rocío (ESP) ♦Female Kumite -55Kg [1st] Warling Jennifer (LUX) [2nd] Thouy Emilie (FRA) … Continue reading →

Karate1 Premier League – Sharm El-Sheikh 2016 (2016/2/26-28 Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt) #Kumite ♦Female Kumite -50Kg [1st] Rashed Areeg (EGY) [2nd] Ozcelik Serap (TUR) [3rd] Kryva Kateryna (UKR) / Khairy Abdelazim Mona (EGY) ♦Female Kumite -55Kg [1st] Shaaban Aya (EGY) [2nd] … Continue reading →

Actively Introducing Japanese Culture After visiting the Karate1 Premier League – Paris 2016, we traveled from Paris to Madrid, Spain, and visited the Japanese Embassy in Spain and met with Ambassador Kazuhiko Koshikawa on Jan 27 (Wednesday). The Japanese Embassy … Continue reading →

Moved by the performance of the Japanese athletes I attended the Karate1 Premier League- Paris 2016 held in Paris, which started on January 22nd (Fri). The first of 10 Karate1 Premier League tournaments scheduled in 2016, it turned out to … Continue reading →