TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Learn to move like a shadow and hurl deadly metal stars at your enemies from a Japanese ninja master -- the latest offering for holiday thrill-seekers. At a ninja-themed ...

The mystique of Japan's once-feared covert warriors, spread by films and fiction, is embodied today in the world's first winner of a master's degree in ninja studies, who also grows his own crops ...

The mystique of Japan's once-feared covert warriors, spread by films and fiction, is embodied today in the world's first winner of a master's degree in ninja studies, who also grows his own crops, ...

A wanna-be ninja. Photo: Seth W. Jinichi Kawakami, a 63-year old engineer, is probably Japan’s last true-blue ninja. He’s the head of the Ban clan, a family that traces its ninja roots back ...

Japan's era of shoguns and samurai is long over, but the country does have one, or maybe two, surviving ninjas. Experts in the dark arts of espionage and silent assassination, ninjas passed skills ...

The ancient ninja art has been passed down in Japan since the 12th Century, but Chris O’Neill's nationality hasn't stopped his success ...

Japan's legendary ninjas are famous for their stealth and were said to possess a supernatural gift for invisibility. But now martial arts experts are concerned they might be disappearing in real ...

TOKYO – Japan is turning to those hooded samurai-era acrobatic spies known as ninja to woo tourism. The Japan Ninja Council, a government-backed organization of scholars, tourism groups and ...

Japanese officials have established a “ninja council” in order to boost tourism ahead of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, a report said. In a bid to capitalize on the global interest in… ...

Japan’s ninja arts hold key to survival, says Genichi Mitsuhashi, the first winner of graduate degree. Iga, Japan | By Reuters | Posted by: Alfea Jamal . Aug 03, 2020 08:05 PM IST .

An American has become the first ever professional ninja to be paid for his martial arts work - in Japan. Chris O’Neill has been accepted as part of a troop of ninja warriors for a tourism boost ...

The modern black-clad ninja is Genichi Mitsuhashi, 45, who says he realised that ninjutsu, or ninja arts, held the key to survival after he was held up at gunpoint during a stay in Brazil at the ...