The karate-do (空手道 karatedō ?, 'the way of the empty hand') of kara ("empty"), te ("hand") - "empty hand" - and do ("way", "philosophy of life") "), is a traditional martial art of the Ryūkyū islands nowadays belonging to Japan, currently known as Okinawa prefecture, based on some styles of Chinese martial arts, or Wu Shu, and to a lesser extent on other disciplines from the southeast Asian
