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The Ninja: The Real Shadow Warriors Of Medieval Japan | Ancient Black Ops | Chronicle
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Posted on 03/13/2024 8:31:16 AM PDT by 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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TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans; Reference; Society
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; hanzo; ieyasu; japan; middleages; ninja; nobunaga; themikado
Then as now, spying is a creepy trade, and employs creepy SOBs who can't be trusted.
1 posted on 03/13/2024 8:31:16 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

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。


2 posted on 03/13/2024 10:10:56 AM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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To: lefty-lie-spy

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


3 posted on 03/13/2024 10:53:24 AM PDT by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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To: Captainpaintball

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”.


4 posted on 03/13/2024 11:21:40 AM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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To: lefty-lie-spy

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.


5 posted on 03/13/2024 4:50:53 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: lefty-lie-spy

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.


6 posted on 03/13/2024 4:56:02 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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Thanks Eleutheria5.

7 posted on 03/13/2024 10:50:16 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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