TOKYO — Roughly eight centuries ago, a new martial art called karate came into being on a subtropical island now known as Okinawa. On Friday, an Okinawan won the first Olympic gold medal in men’s kata ...

The exact history of karate as we know it is unknown, but it is believed that the roots of it date back thousands of years. Okinawa, Japan, is regarded as the home and birthplace of karate, though it ...

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Okinawa—with its 160 islands, only 47 of which are inhabited, surrounded by the East China Sea and the Pacific Ocean—may be among the smallest of Japan’s major prefectures. But what it lacks in size ...