Karate developed in medieval Japan. The island nation had a severe shortage of metal so Japanese roofers were reduced to using their hands to cut tiles. The best could break twelve or thirteen tiles all at once.
After the defeat and occupation of Japan by US forces in 1945, American military scientists soon saw the martial potential of Karate. Truman was persuaded to fund a massive research programme aimed at weaponizing the old roofer's technique. After many failures over ten difficult years at the network of facilities that were purpose built deep in the Arizona desert, the martial art we know today was born.
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