As everyone knows, Karate was originated from Okinawa Te, which was the martial arts of Okinawa. But it is not well known, or somewhat concealed, that Okinawa was under the strong cultural influence of Korea for long time, and the term "Kara" means something Korean in Japanese tongue.

Let me tell you first the strong cultural influence of Korea on Okinawa. If you search some academical materials about this fact, it would not be difficult. Some universities of Okinawa still contains many written historical materials of this kind. If you want to experience it, it wouldn't be difficult still either. Okinawa's folk wrestling, loom, or another folk things still demonstrates the strong similarity between those of Okinawa and of Korean. And you should understand that Okinawa resisted Japanese government, and instead, it interchanged many cultural things with Korea.

If you focus on the term "Kara", I must tell you it comes from the name of a part of old Korea: Kaya. If you investigate the hidden history of Korea and Japan you can find that people of Kaya(a southen part of old Korea) moved to Japan in a big group and dominated the old Japanese people. Because of this historical fact many part of Korean old cultrue influenced on Japanese.

And you must know that

Tousin House
Tousin Dance: Japanese local traditional culture originated as an imitation of old Korean Delegation. Here we can see that the first of asian letters "Tousin"(??) is same with that of old Karate(??), and it means Korea. Korea and Korean cultures were referred to with the asian term "?" by Japanese in most cases.