It starts at the very beginning, before the word ninja was used, right up to the present where you can see how people are trying to keep the ninja traditions alive. There is some general information and some very interesting stories about specific ninja actions. I liked learning about how they were farmers and how they had their own code to live by. Everyone has heard of ninjas and knows the myths but to me the real history is actually more interesting even if it doesn’t make for as action packed a movie as the stories. It is interesting to see how and why the ninja came about. “In his commitment to survive, in the techniques he used to do so, and in his humanity, Onoda … is in many ways the real last of the ninjas.Like all history books that pull out one aspect of history to talk about, I think you could get more out of it if you are familiar with the general history of the time and place. “Ninjutsu seems to have found its final and most extraordinary expression” in Onoda, Man wrote. He refused to believe the war had ended until the retired Major who had given him his initial orders returned in 1974 to relieve him of his duty. There he remained for 29 years, hiding from search teams, stealing food and sometimes clashing with local civilians he thought to be the enemy. Onoda was deployed toward the end of the war to an island in the Philippines under orders to sabotage harbor and airport installations ahead of an expected U.S. The two shared loyalty, secrecy, a sense of duty, a sense of integrity.” “The man who claims to be the inheritor of the ninja tradition, Masaaki Hatsumi, lists eighteen fundamental areas of expertise, eleven of which were echoed in Nakano’s training: spiritual refinement, unarmed combat, swordsmanship, fire and explosives, disguise and impersonation, stealth and entering methods, strategy, espionage, escape and concealment, meteorology and geography … There was enough in common between traditional ninja training and Nakano’s to call these men modern ninjas. The school taught officers stealth tactics and values like integrity and - above all - completing the mission, which aligned with the basic tenets of the centuries-old traditional ninja practice.
The intelligence officer was a graduate of the elite Nakano Spy School, which Man described as something of a modern ninja training ground. Man devoted a chapter of his book Ninja: 1,000 Years of the Shadow Warrior to Onod a. “Other people would dispute this, but I’d say he’s the last of the ninja,” Man told TIME last year. Hiroo Onoda, the World War II Japanese intelligence officer who died Thursday at age 91, drew from ninja-like military training to survive nearly thirty years fighting a long terminated war, according to ninja historian John Man. Follow world may have lost its last ninja Friday.
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