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Karate - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | Karate or karate-do (空手道) is a budo art, a martial art introduced to the Japanese main islands from Okinawa in 1922. |
| | As it was adopted into modern Japanese culture, karate was imbued with some elements of zen buddhism, and the practice of karate is sometimes called a form of "moving zen." Classes often begin and end with brief periods of meditation. |
| | Karate may also be practiced as a competitive sport, although unlike other martial arts such as taekwondo or judo it does not possess Olympic status, because there is no head organisation for Karate as whole and no uniform rules among all styles. |
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