“I found that a karate dojo constituted a male-dominated community, though,” Oshiro said, looking back when she started learning the martial art when she was 28. “I often heard others remark ...

Japanese traditional martial arts such as kendo, karate and judo, require body contact for training. That means lots of perspiration and airborne droplets — exactly what experts tell us to avoid.

Eden, a green belt in the Japanese Yoshukai style of karate, has only been training for a year and half and was formally a student at Gerry Blanck's Martial Arts Center in Pacific Palisades.

And while there are plenty of Japanese martial arts movies, those are mostly Samurai and Ninja films. Many leading action stars have backgrounds in Karate, including Dolph Lundgren, Wesley Snipes ...