Do Japanese use kung fu too or is it only chinese that use kungfu?

There are some kata and some movements and techniques in kata that show a strong Chinese influence and in the 1800s and early 1900s there were people from the mainland that did study martial arts in Japan and Okinawa as well as some Japanese that traveled and studied arts of the mainland there. There was a lot of exchange of ideas and concepts between the two during this time frame. Look at the style Goju-ryu and its influence by White Crane Kung-fu and the influence that southern China had on the development of that style of karate and that is a good example of this I think.





This all changed though in the early 1900s as southern China was dominated by Japan and several other countries and colonized for financial and economic gain. During this time frame also the Japanese systematically went through their own culture removing as much of the Chinese influence and its presence from it as they could, even in martial arts. It was thought or considered as impure and base in nature and not refined. These two things together with WW ll and all the war atrocities that Japan committed on mainland China and its people did not exactly contribute in any positive way to this either and the Chinese basically did the same thing with respect to their culture. They only exchanged official diplomatic relations in the late 70s and that was thirty years after the end of WW ll and relations today are still somewhat strained because of the past as well as the present. If you do some reading about Goju-ryu, Shito-ryu, Shorin-ryu and White Crane Kung-fu you will run across some of these aspects and also read about some of this and how it all came about and why and some of it was later discarded due to cultural influences.|||technically since the words kung fu means hard work the Japanese and every culture use it in some ways and the Chinese martial arts( have influenced many different styles throughout the world








traditionally they do not use it however I am sure many practice styles of kung fu|||Kung fu is chinese, but many of the founders of the karate arts studied kung fu in Southern China.


Some say that white crane is the ancestor of karate and that eagle claw is the ancestor of jujitsu.|||A Shaolin monk opened a temple in Africa and teaches Shaolin Kung Fu to Africans. Does a persons race or gender stop someone from learning, practicing, or using any MA?|||Kung Fu is Chinese. Karate is Japanese. But I'm sure there is some cross-over between the two countries.|||Chinese...


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_mar鈥?/a>|||I'm pretty sure only the chinese, because the japanese have Karate.