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HISTORY OF KARATE

Modern-day Karate, “The art of empty hands”, was developed by the Okinawans in response to a ban on the possession of weapons by Japanese warlords. When Okinawa was united with Japan, a master named Gichin Funakoshi was invited to display his skills to the Japanese. His skills impressed Jigaro Kano, the founder of Judo, and Funakoshi stayed to teach. In turn, Funakoshi learned from Kano and developed a code of conduct to his art and called it Karate. He founded a school called Shotokan, and this style of Karate remains the most widely practiced today.

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