The Ninja: The Real Shadow Warriors Of Medieval Japan | Ancient Black Ops | Chronicle

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[Eleutheria5]

Feudal Japan's Shadow Warriors, the ninja, were unconventional warfare experts, specializing in deception, ambush, infiltration, assassination, and espionage. Despite facing overwhelming odds and the wrath of feudal overlords, the ninja's ingenuity and resilience lead to unexpected victories and alliances, shaping the course of Japanese history.

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[Eleutheria5]

Then as now, spying is a creepy trade, and employs creepy SOBs who can't be trusted.

[lefty-lie-spy]

あらまぁ、そうですか？えぇっと、これさぁ、なんかさ、英国の番組ですけれども、日本製の番組を報告したらもとええじゃんかい。

[Captainpaintball]

Lemme guess. Duh ninjas really be duh black man, not no Chinese muthaf—kas.

[lefty-lie-spy]

No, just more folklore and myth and historical national pride and marketing than actual truth. The “Ninja” really weren’t a thing until early novelists and folklore made it a “thing”. Kind of like how we hear the emperor was worshipped during WWII. Both are part fairytale and very, very, very complicated to explain in all the involved complications that come with the long history and various ancient regional, cultural, and ideological embellishments from long before Japan was what we know as “Japan”. It’s all just become folklore now due to thousands of years of “stuff”.

[Eleutheria5]

Google Translate gave me this:

“Oh my, is that so? Well, this is a British program, but wouldn’t it be okay to report a Japanese program?”

My hiragana is very rusty, and I never learned much kanji, so I have to resort to google translate. Waruku desu nee.

[Eleutheria5]

I learned some basic ninjutsu from my late brother-in-law, who was a fifth degree black belt in shima-ryu ninjutsu, and quite the character. The vid gives the history of the feud with Nobunaga, and how they became an integral part of the Tokugawa shogunate and helped it get established. Author makes the case that they were similar to the CIA or special forces, and their martial wisdom was substantially similar to what agents learn nowadays because their function is basically the same as the ninjas.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Eleutheria5.