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One of the martial arts. Karate is a type of unarmed combat derived from kempo, a form of the Chinese Shaolin boxing. It became popular in the West in the 1930s.



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Kanazawa founded the Shotokan Karate-do International Federation in 1979, an organization that now has branches in more than 90 countries.
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