Japanese Martial Arts are more of a origin based thing and have been around way longer than American martial arts. American martial arts in my opinion are not as effective in real world fighting and are mainly sports based such as Taekwondo. I hope this answers your question!
Martial Arts refers to the skills used in combat. Every country has martial arts and some originated in Japan, but not all of them.
taijutsu
Which sect of Buddhism in Japan promoted self control, meditation, and martial arts?
no single person invented martial arts - there's a 'fairy tale' that an Indian prince took martial arts to china' but the truth is that in south America (Brazil) japan and other countries around the globe martial arts became popular because of combat with other countries therefore no single person invented it
Karate
Martial Arts mostly originates from Japan and China, but there are other places as well.
eat sushi and do martial arts.
Karate comes from Okinawa. It is based on the ancient art of kung fu from China combined with the local Okinawa art of te. From there it went to Japan and from there it went to Korea where it was combined with the local martial art and became what we know as Tae kwon do.
It was created by the Budukan in Japan.
The address of the Martial Arts Museum Of America is: 1010 University Ave 264, San Diego, CA 92103
Go to a martial Arts training school in Japan.
Bruce Lee created the style. He incorporated what he felt were the best parts of the martial arts he had studied, which included wing chun and karate.