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W H A T I S K A R A T E ?

China Hand. When modified later to Japanese Kanji characters, it came to mean “empty hand.” In 1917, and again in 1922, a group of prominent Okinawan karate masters toured the Japanese mainland to promote karate. Karate quickly became popular, eventually spreading to the U.S., Europe, Australia, and then to most parts of the world. Today, karate is a household word.

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