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Seikichi Odo ( July 26 , 1926 - March 24 , 2002 ) , whose name means `` world walker '' in Japanese , was born in Okinawa . He combined kobud and karate techniques to found the Ryky Hon Kenpo Kobujutsu Federation . Tokyo , officially Tokyo Metropolis , is the capital of Japan and one of its 47 prefectures . The Greater Tokyo Area is the most populous metropolitan area in the world . It is the seat of the ___MASK65___ of Japan and the Japanese government . Tokyo is in the Kant region on the southeastern side of the main island Honshu and includes the Izu Islands and Ogasawara Islands . Formerly known as Edo , it has been the de facto seat of government since 1603 when Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu made the city his headquarters . It officially became the capital after ___MASK65___ Meiji moved his seat to the city from the old capital of Kyoto in 1868 ; at that time Edo was renamed Tokyo . Tokyo Metropolis was formed in 1943 from the merger of the former and the . , abbreviated as or , is a Japanese university located in Minato , Tokyo . It is known as the oldest institute of higher education in Japan . ___MASK10___ Fukuzawa Yukichi originally established it as a school for Western studies in 1858 in Edo ( now Tokyo ). It has eleven campuses in Tokyo and Kanagawa . It has ten faculties : Letters , Economics , Law , Business and Commerce , Medicine , ___MASK77___ and Technology , Policy Management , Environment and Information Studies , Nursing and Medical Care , and Pharmacy . Early life . Gichin Funakoshi was born on November 10 , 1868 ( refer to Karate - d , My Way of Life by Gichin Funakoshi ), the year of the Meiji Restoration , in Shuri , Okinawa , to a low - rank Rykyan Pechin and originally had the family name Tominakoshi . Funakoshi was born prematurely . His ___MASK75___ ' s name was Gisu . After entering primary school he became close friends with the son of Ank Azato , a karate and Jigen - ry ___MASK50___ who would soon become his first karate teacher . Funakoshi ' s family was stiffly opposed to the abolition of the Japanese topknot , and this meant he would be ineligible to pursue his goal of attending medical school , despite having passed the entrance examination . Being trained in both classical Chinese and Japanese philosophies and teachings , Funakoshi became an assistant teacher in Okinawa . During this time , his relations with the Azato family grew and he began nightly travels to the Azato family residence to receive karate instruction from Ank Azato . The , known in Japanese as the and also known as the , are a chain of Japanese islands that stretch southwest from Kyushu to ___MASK15___ : the sumi , Tokara , Amami , Okinawa , and Sakishima Islands ( further divided into the Miyako and Yaeyama Islands ), with Yonaguni the southernmost . The larger are mostly high islands and the smaller ones are mostly coral islands . The largest of the islands is Okinawa . Karate developed on the Ryukyu Islands in what is now Okinawa , Japan . It was brought to the Japanese mainland in the early 20th century during a time of cultural exchanges between the Japanese and the Chinese . It was systematically taught in Japan after the Taish era . In 1922 the Japanese ___MASK70___ of Education invited Gichin Funakoshi to Tokyo to give a karate demonstration . In 1924 Keio University established the first university karate club in mainland Japan and by 1932 , major Japanese universities had karate clubs . In this era of escalating Japanese militarism , the name was changed from (" Chinese hand " or " Tang hand ") to (" empty hand ")  both of which are pronounced " karate "  to indicate that the Japanese wished to develop the combat form in Japanese style . After World War II , Okinawa became an important United States ___MASK78___ site and karate became popular among servicemen stationed there . History . Rise of militarism . The ___MASK78___ had a strong influence on Japanese society from the Meiji Restoration . Almost all leaders in Japanese society during the Meiji period ( whether in the ___MASK78___ , politics or business ) were ex "- ___MASK27___ " or descendants of " ___MASK27___ ", and shared a set of values and outlooks . The early Meiji government viewed Japan as threatened by western imperialism , and one of the prime motivations for the " Fukoku Kyohei " policy was to strengthen Japan ' s economic and industrial foundations , so that a strong ___MASK78___ could be built to defend Japan against outside powers .