I have no idea what kind of company this is.

"We deliver Ninja to you"
"We do not accept criminal acts like theft, destruction, assault"
"No Ninjutsu service"
http://www.ninja-deli.com/

http://www.facebook.com/DanCHarmonKogaRyuNinjutsu ASK HIM QUESTIONS http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-

Here's the fake menkyo.
Text is translation program Japanese and misspelling Kôga.

http://www.jacar.go.jp
Ref Code C01004864700
Document title 教育用器材特別支給の件 (Educational materials special issue)
昭和１５年１０月１０日(10 Oct 1940)

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Page 8 忍術用具(Ninjutsu tools)

Kasaya
To me, this isn't Ninja job.
This kind of job can be done by non-Ninja.
They were spies but not Ninja.
Sneaking into castle is what Ninja job is.

They had joint exercise with Japan Defence Forces in Shiga prefecture. Accordng to Asahi shimbun, they wanted to see "real Ninja" since Shiga was the home of Koka Ninja. As we know Ninja don't exist anymore. JDF invited Ninja perfomance group "Ashura" from the Iga Ninja museum and entertained the Army men.

ふたたび萩野家奉公書から
伊賀の乱の後守田三之丞は次々と主君を変え岡山藩池田利隆に仕える。
From Haginoke Hokosho
After Nobunaga's campaign against Iga, Morita San'nojo served for many different masters and lastly he served for Lord Ikeda Toshitaka of Okayama.

大阪冬の陣(1614)で三之丞は瀬踏みという特殊任務を与えられる。
瀬踏みとは堀や川を渡るとき、どこが浅いか下調べし効率良く渡れるルートを見つけること。
三之丞は夜中じゅう大阪城の凍る水の張る掘を瀬踏みを行なって渡印してきた。





The Siege of Osaka, Winter campaign (1614)
San'nojo was given a special operation called Sebumi.
Sebumi is finding best route when the troops needed to across river or moat.
San'nojo walked around in the freezing water of Osaka castle's moat all night long, left a mark on the other side of the moat.





＊なんと、伊賀忍者は低体温症にならないのだｗ　こういう科学的におかしい話が出てくるから結局忍者の史料の信用性が高まらない。
*Amazingly Iga Ninja don't get Hypothermia. This kind of unscientific episode spoils credibility of Ninja's historical records.




元禄赤穂事件（１７０１～３）
Genroku Ako Incident (1701-1703)
岡山藩は赤穂藩の隣なので萩野市衛門（三之丞の孫）など忍者を赤穂に送り情報を集めた。
画像は赤穂書類「岡山藩の忍や岡山藩の家臣たちが集めた情報」
Ako han and Okayama han were next each other so Okayama han sent Hagino Ichiemon(San'nojo's grand son) and several Ninja to get informations.(They needed to know whether Ako han stands against bakufu or not)
The pictute is The Ako documents "The informations gathered by Ninja or retainers of Okayama han"

磯田道史
調べるにあたって柳沢吉保の許可をとっている。
Isoda
Okayama han took permission from Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu prior to research Ako.

笠谷和比古
これは僕から言わせると忍者らしくない。
忍者でなくたってできる収集活動じゃないかと。
スパイではあるけど忍者と言えるか？
城に入り込んでこそ忍者。

Kasaya
To me, this isn't Ninja job.
This kind of job can be done by non-Ninja.
They were spies but not Ninja.
Sneaking into castle is what Ninja job is.

市右衛門は１６６１年から岡山藩に勤め始める。
住居は城下町の東のはずれ、足軽などが住んでいた。
仕事は城下の見回りや参勤交代の警護など、現代の警備員のようなもの。
２０石９斗５人扶持給料制のお勤め忍者。
７３才で引退。
明治２年忍び役廃止
Ichiemon started working for Okayama han in 1661.
He resided in the east edge of the castle town which was same as Ashigaru.
His job was patroling the town and guarding the lord when Sankin-Kotai. Just like security guard nowadays.
20koku 9to 5ninbuchi, Salaried Ninja.
Retired when he was 73.
1870, Okayama han officially closed Shinobi title.

BS歴史館 ここまでわかった!？忍者の真実 2012-8-23
BS Rekishikan "Truth of Ninja" aired in 23 Aug 2012

磯田先生が数年前発見した岡山藩の忍び役の史料を中心に話し合う。
They talk about mainly Okayama-han's Ninja that Isoda discovered recently.
ゲストは磯田道史准教授、国際日本文化研究センターの笠谷教授となぜか映画監督篠田氏。たぶん篠田氏が一般的忍者ファン代表なんだろう。氏の言うことは一般的忍者本の受け売りの範囲内。
Guests are Assistant proffessor Isoda, Professor of  International research center for Japanese studies Kasaya and somehow movie director Shinoda. Probably Shinoda represent common Ninja fans. What he said was what's on common Ninjer books.


Q・忍びの者とはどんな人達だったのですか？
Q.What kind of people are Shinobi?

篠田監督
Movie director Shinoda
城の中に入って放火するとか暗殺するとかは日常茶飯事。
They sneaked into castle to set fire and assassinated all the time!
痕跡を残しちゃいけない。刀抜いた瞬間から忍者の資格が無い。
They don't leave trace. Once they drew sword, they were not qualified to be Ninja.


笠谷教授
Professor Kasaya
伝えられるエピソードとして、敵の服装をして陣中を暴れまわる
Reportedly, they disguised as enemy and went on ranpage in enemy camp.
忍者ってのはスパイであるとともに、スーパーマンであり超人的能力を持っている。
Ninja were spies and also supermen.
それは城を乗り越えるという力なんですね。
The super abirity is getting into castle.
堀を越えて石垣を超えて城内で様々な謀略をする、これは並大抵では出来ない。
Getting over moat and wall, espionage inside of the castle, it's no easy.

＊注意深く読めばスーパーマンと呼ぶ理由は城に潜入する技だとわかるが、忍者ファンはこういう言葉をとらえて大げさに吹聴するので注意して欲しい。
*If you read carefully, the reason why Kasaya called "Supermen" was skill of getting into castle, but Ninjers tend to exaggerate word like that so he should be more careful.

忍びの起源は地侍
Origin of Ninja was Jizamurai (=Dogo 土豪)



萩野家奉公書
Haginoke Hokosho
伊賀忍者を祖先に持つ岡山藩藩士萩野家の記録。
これが磯田先生発見の史料。
Record of Hagino family, retainer of Ikeda clan Okayama han.
Their ancestor was Iga Ninja.
This is what Isoda discovered.

萩野市衛門の祖父守田三之丞、戦国時代伊賀生まれ
忍者のリーダーで信長と互角に渡り合った。（天正伊賀の乱当時１６才）
＊こういう表現はフカシっぽい。
Hagino Ichiemon's grandfather Morita San'nojo was born in Iga during Sengoku period.
He was a leader of Ninja, fought with Nobunaga equally.(Tensho Iga no ran, San'nojo was 16)
*Description like that sounds exaggeration.

Q.忍びとは伊賀者甲賀者のことか？
Q.Were Ninja Iga-mono and Koka-mono?

磯田
伊賀甲賀はブランド忍者
日本各地に地場忍術が沢山できてる
＊私はこの地場忍術流派がいつ発生したのか知りたいんだけどずっと謎のまま。
Isoda
Iga and Koka were brand names.
There were many regional Ninjutsu all over Japan.
*I've been researching when those regional ninjutsu were established but it's been mystery.

Q.なぜ忍びは生まれたか
Q.How Nina was born?

篠田
伊賀は山で盆地だから稲作なんてやっても食えない。
何で食うんですか？山林ですよ。
Shinoda
Iga was surrounded by mountains, they could not grow rice very much.
How did they live? It's forestry.

笠谷
やっぱりね超人的な能力なんですよ。
監督が言ったことではっと気がついたのは木のぼりですね。
彼らの能力の由来が修験だとか山伏だとか言われているけど根本考えてみたら枝打ちなどしなければいけないので、山の民ってのは木のぼりしなければならない。
Kasaya
It's because their super abirity.
I realized the ability was climbing tree.
People say Ninja's skills were originated in Yamabushi(Shugendo) but fundamentally mountain people need to climb up tree to cut branches.

＊もともと忍びは山賊のようなものなので山地に多く居たというのは理解出来るんだけど、それで特殊技能を持つ忍者が生まれたというのなら長野や群馬に伊賀甲賀より多くの凄い忍者がいないとおかしいなあ。
長野に比べたら伊賀はまだ平地も多いしなんといっても都に近い。私が伊賀に行った時いちばん印象に残ってるのは豪農のお屋敷の多さ。うちは関東平野だが昔名主さんだった家でもあんなにでかくない。
やっぱりいちばんの理由は土豪がひしめき合っていて縄張り争いばっかりやってたってことじゃないかな。（暴力団の抗争に近い？）
とはいえ私はまだ忍術書にあるようなことを戦国時代に忍者が実際使ってたか懐疑的なんだけどね。
*Shinobi were same as bandits so I understand they lived in or near mountains, but if it is the reason for them to master special Ninja skill, there suppsed to be more super Ninja in Nagano or Gunma than Iga-Koka.
Iga has more flat land than Nagano and even close to Kyoto. What impressed me when I went to Iga was many big farmer mansions. I live in "Kanto plain", even former Nanushi(village leader in feudal period, usually richest farmer) houses aren't that big.
I think why Iga-Koka developed Ninja skills(Guerilla attack, sneaking, stalking etc) was because there were too many Jizamurai fighting over territory.(Kind of like Yakuza war?)
Though I am still skeptical with Ninja in Sengoku period really had all those skills on Ninjutsu scrolls.

伊賀
そんなにたいそうな山ではない。
すぐ向こうは大都市だった京都。
Iga
The mountains are not so big.
Very close to "big city" Kyoto(Left).







長野、松本周辺
３０００m級の山々
ウェストン卿により日本アルプスと名付けられた。
Nagano, Matsumoto city.
3000m class mountains.
Sir Weston named Japan Alps.






群馬、谷川岳周辺
もうほとんど山しかない
Gunma, Tanigawadake
Almost mountains.








神奈川、風祭
風魔のモデルになった風間の居たところ
なんと海に近い
Kanagawa, Kazamatsuri.
Kazamatsuri was the place where Kazama(model of Fuma) were.
Even close to ocean.





パート２に続きます
Continue to Part2

This entry is basically Japanese version of previous one.

韓国人がこんなに反日なのは日本に併合された時代が原因だと思ったら実はそうではなくてそれ以前から反日でした。
しかもその理由は単純にレイシズムです。
儒教に骨の髄まで侵された朝鮮の人々は中国から海を挟んで離れた日本を野蛮の国と見下していました。
ここに１９０５年に書かれた英字新聞の記事があります。
５月なのでちょうど日露戦争最中の日本が朝鮮を保護国にしようと動いている時期です。
これを読めば今の韓国人の持つ日本人に対する侮蔑的感情が当時からぜんぜん変わっていない事がわかります。
一応わかるところは訳してみましたので読んでみてください。

North China Herald May 5 1905
ノース・チャイナ・ヘラルド紙　1905年5月5日号

Japan's Task in Korea
朝鮮における日本の役割

Japan has before her the delicate and difficult task of placating Corea, and winning the hearts of this conservative people.
It will cost nothing to take possession of Corea and of Corea's government, but it will tax all her skill to win Corea's heart and confidence.

日本は朝鮮をなだめその保守的な人々の心を掴むという難しい仕事がある。
朝鮮及び朝鮮政府を所有することにはいくらもかからないだろうが、朝鮮の心と信頼を得るには相当の負担が必要だろう。

There is in the peninsula to-day, as there has been for a thousand years, an ingrained dislike of Japan and the Japanese. As naturally as the Corean says Kong-ja-nim (The Master Confucius) he says of Japan Wai-nim or Keu-gajie-nim(Contemptible wretch).
It is in the most cases an unreasonable, foolish dislike, but it is a part of his bone and fibre and breaks forth from him on all occasions.

ここに今、千年もの間日本への嫌悪感が染み付いた半島がある。
朝鮮人は儒教師であるが日本人はウェノムまたは卑劣で哀れな人だと言う。
不合理でばかばかしい嫌悪の理由だが、あらゆる場面で現れる朝鮮人の考え方そのものなのだ。

Korea's childish diplomacy with Japan has been featured by English medias.
http://www.economist.com/node/21562239
http://thediplomat.com/the-editor/2012/09/04/south-koreas-irresponsible-diplomacy-with-japan/
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/09/02/why-japan-and-south-korea-are-feuding-over-a-cluster-of-rocks.html

But they seem to know only recent events between the two countries, so I recommend  to read this article written in 107 years ago.
"Japan's Task in Korea" North China Herald, 5 may 1905








(You can read the copy on P517; http://books.google.com/books?id=uRNDAQAAIAAJ&dq)
Koreans were already Japan haters before being occupied by Japan.
The reason was not anything like history or territory dispute but simply racism caused by Confucianism.
That is the core of Korea's Anti-Japan, they won't change, they won't understand criticism from outside.

KCC(Korean version of FCC) announced to ban web sites and internet communities which are friendly to Japanese but critical to Koreans and Korean history.
http://www.mt.co.kr/view/mtview.php?type=1&no=2012083108223255359
What interesting is they are going to ban criticism.
That is something what dictatorship country does.
And it reminds me Chosonninja's Narcissistic personality disorder.
One of symptoms was "Hypersensitivity to real or imagined insults that could result in feelings of extreme shame and humiliation"
Such behavior proved this video was true.