In modern times, under the social environment in which judo was newly founded by Jigoro KANO and Bushido (the code of the samurai) was re-imported and praised after the Japanese-Sino War, Dai Nippon Butoku Kai was organized and adopted as the moral improvement of the Empire of Japan, and that organization changed the name from bujutsu to budo by replacing 'jutsu' (arts) with 'do' (ways).
近代になり、嘉納治五郎が新しく柔道を創設したことなどや日清戦争後に武士道が再輸入されもてはやされたなどの社会情勢から大日本武徳会が設立されて大日本帝国の精神修養として採用され、明治末から大正にかけて武術の「術」を「道」と替え武道と名称変更した。