It’s lunchtime on a Friday and Kata Robata’s head chef Manabu Horiuchi is standing in front of me brandishing a huge fish. The red seabream, longer than Chef Hori’s forearm and barely contained in its ...

Ready to pay for your dinner before you've even taken a bite? When it's prepared by Manabu “Hori” Horiuchi, that's a solid yes. Kata Robata had us at a special omakase menu by the James ...

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Tokyo-born Rika Usami began her karate career at just 10 years old when she joined a local dojo. Progressing through a number of minor competitions during her teenage years, she soon began winning ...

It’s only right that karate, a centuries-old Japanese style of martial arts, will make its Olympic debut at the Tokyo Games. Believed to have originated on the Japanese island prefecture of Okinawa in ...

After nearly a half-century of attempts to add karate to the Olympics, the Japanese martial art finally makes its debut on a temporary basis as one of five sports added only to the Tokyo program. The ...

The women's solo "kata" competition kicked off karate's first foray into the Olympics on Thursday with the 10 karateka performing routines in a hushed, spectator-less Nippon Budokan arena, the ...

In Part 1 of our Chef Chat with Manabu Horiuchi (called Hori or Hori-san by his friends and best customers for short), we learned how and why he came to Houston. From the age of 12, Horiuchi knew he ...