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Karate
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In the early 1920s Okinawan karate was taken to the main islands of Japan; however, all Okinawan arts were looked down on by the Japanese people as being primitive and savage. Practicing karate naked to the waist and without a ranking system only reinforced these beliefs. Consequently, in order for karate to be accepted in Japan as a sophisticated Japanese martial art, the teachers of karate adopted Jigoro Kano's system of belts and began wearing the gi that he developed.
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― The History of Karate and the Masters Who Made It: Development, Lineages, and Philosophies of Traditional Okinawan and Japanese Karate-do
― The History of Karate and the Masters Who Made It: Development, Lineages, and Philosophies of Traditional Okinawan and Japanese Karate-do
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