Karate was born about 500 years ago as a form of self-defense for the warrior class of the Ryukyu Kingdom. As Japan modernized itself at the end of the 19th century, karate spread across the ...

2019 The Japanese martial art of karatedo (the “way of karate”) was born in the Ryukyu Kingdom (present-day Okinawa Prefecture) which existed for around 450 years from the fifteenth century. It is ...