Karate-do, with its birthplace in Okinawa has been popularly known as "Karate," and is now recognized as a sport, as well as a martial art designed for practical combat. It has spread all across the world via mainland Japan and the United States and now its aficionados number well over fifty million in more than 150 countries worldwide.
The people in Okinawa hold that it is our responsibility to meet the passionate desires of worldwide seekers of Karate-do as a traditional culture Okinawa takes pride in. They can build systematic relationship with Okinawa by taking home the arts of karate they have learned here. This represents invaluable feat on their part and immeasurable cultural and economic assets that will be created for the Okinawa Prefecture and Karate-do. These are the ultimate objectives of "Okinawa Traditional Karate-do Kobudo International Studying Center."