Full contact karate vs Jūkendō

Full contact karate and Jūkendō side by side, from the facts recorded for each art.

	Full contact karate	Jūkendō
Country of origin	Japan	Japan
Type	karate	budō, gendai budō and martial arts
Notable practitioners here	28	1
Top countries of practitioners	Japan, France and Korea under Japanese rule	France

Full contact karate

Full contact karate is any format of karate where competitors spar (also called "Kumite") full-contact and allow a knockout as winning criterion.

From the Wikipedia article Full contact karate (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Jūkendō (銃剣道) is the Japanese martial art of bayonet fighting, and has been likened to kendo (but with bayonets instead of swords).

From the Wikipedia article Jūkendō (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Facts from Wikidata (CC0): Q3754231, Q1717983. Practitioner counts are the people with a profile on this site. Data retrieved 2026-10-22.

Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.