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Karate began on an island in Okinawa, Japan (formally China, people from Okinawa still say they are Chinese and if you say they are Japanese they get very upset)

It was started there along with the beginnings of traditional martial art weapons because Okinawa was invaded by the Japanese and because they were a simple and friendly farming community, they didn't know how to fight. Over the years that followed they learnt from watching the Japanese Army training and began to teach themselves their own form of karate as well as teaching themselves how to use their farm tools as weapons to defend themselves. The Bo, Tonfa, Nunchucka, Sai are all farm tools.

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