American karate star Sakura Kokumai says she was the target of anti-Asian slurs and threats while training at a park in California. Kokumai, who has already qualified for the Tokyo Olympics, posted a ...

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TOKYO – For Sakura Kokumai to step onto the mat at the famed Nippon Budokan with a chance for a bronze medal in karate’s Olympic debut is a storybook ending of its own. Kokumai is Japanese-American, ...

Sakura Kokumai was training at Grijalva Park in Orange, California, when a stranger began yelling at her Jason Hahn is a former Human Interest and Sports Reporter for PEOPLE. He started at PEOPLE's ...

Sakura Kokumai, who is set to represent the U.S. karate team at the upcoming Tokyo Games, revealed she was on the receiving end of an angry rant from a man at a California park where she trains last ...

Sakura Kokumai will become the first U.S. athlete to compete in karate when the sport makes its debut on Day 13 of the Tokyo Olympics. Stream Los Angeles News for free, 24/7, wherever you are. WATCH ...

A man reportedly targeted US Olympic karate athlete Sakura Kokumai with anti-Asian slurs as she worked out in a California park. Kokumai, 28 — a Team USA athlete since 2007, and seven-time USA ...

COLORADO SPRINGS — Karate will be making its debut in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. And one USA Karate athlete is thrilled to have the chance to be able to compete in Japan. Sakura Kokumai started ...

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - JANUARY 06: Martial artist Sakura Kokumai performs during a Panasonic press event for CES 2020 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center on January 6, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. CES, ...

Sakura Kokumai, a 28-year-old Asian American martial artist with Team USA, said a man yelled racist insults at her as she trained at a park in Southern California. The seven-time USA National Champion ...

TOKYO – For Sakura Kokumai to step onto the mat at the famed Nippon Budokan with a chance for a bronze medal in karate’s Olympic debut is a storybook ending of its own. Kokumai is Japanese-American, ...