[Shinobi_Kokujin]

after doing some further reading on my own on Karate. to me, Karate is Japanese. Okinawan in Origin with some Chinese influence, but Definately Japanese. (being that Okinawa is a Prefecture of Japan also).


during WW2 when Karate started to become more known in the west other than Judo. historians and authors on books on Karate, even alot of the practicioners such as Mitose would add the "Chinese influence"/ "Chinese origin" tag to Karate

to sorta throw people off that Karate wasnt exclusively Japanese since during that time period there was alot of Anti-Japanese sentiment due to the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

and even after the war.....the tag stuck with Karate in a sense.

now when you get down to the techniques and training curriculum. it further shows that Karate is Definetly Japanese. techniques are generally executed in a more straight forward motion.

many Karate systems like Goju-ryu and Shorin-ryu have the similar circular movements in Chinese styles where techniques flow from one to another. but Karate is more modified in its approach.....

which further makes it Japanese cause of they way of its developent coming from Okinawan and Japanese people. though i use the term Japanese generally since Okinawa is part of Japan.