Hello, I am Yoshi from NILS Japanese language school. Today’s topic is Ninja 忍者, one of the most popular characters for foreigners.
Ninja leterally means people who are hiding or in disguise. They were independent groups of people who lived and trained in secluded mountain villages in order to work as secret agents or assassins for hire. Feudal lords often employed them to secretly collect strategic information and assassinate enemies. There used to be more than 70 groups of ninjas in Japan including the famous Iga 伊賀 and Koga 甲賀 schools. But they disappeared gradually as Japan became a peaceful country under the Tokugawa shogunate governmnet. In samurai dramas, ninjas fight enemies using weapons such as shuriken (throwing knives) or kusari-gama (sickles and chains), and use ninja skills such as vanishing into thin air and walking on water.

You can put on ninja costume and you can be like ninja at 肥前夢街道 in Saga prefecture. It is not that far from here, so you can get there in 1-1.5 hours from here in Ogori.

September 3rd News, from NILS Japanese language school.