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Shotokan Karate is one of the most popular martial arts practiced today. It has its roots in the ancient Chinese martial arts, and can even be traced back to the Shaolin Temple (as can most of today's martial arts. Having roots in China, Shotokan can also be traced to Okinawa, then to Japan, and then to the world at large.
If you know of and can think of martial arts like Aikido and Tai Chi Chuan, with their "soft" circular movements as "soft", then Shotokan would be a "hard style". It is more linear than circular and it can be very aggressive and devastating to an opponent.