Japan officially recognized karate as a martial art only 86 years ago. And its origins are not in mainland Japan at all: It was born in the archipelago of Okinawa, a long-independent kingdom whose ...

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There are said to be about 130 million karate practitioners worldwide. A group from Switzerland visited Okinawa in southwestern Japan on a package tour for a 10-day course in mid-April.

Traditional Okinawa karate is nothing like sports karate ... They are tireless in their corrections of my posture. In Japan, patience is a core value and high virtue. "Imagine an opponent ...

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