ninjas

  • Today I Discovered The UK Government’s Irrational Fear Of Ninjas

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    Ninjas (AKA shinobi) were covert mercenaries in feudal Japan who were trained in the arts of espionage, sabotage and guerrilla warfare. In the 1980s and early ’90s they became a popular subject matter in Western entertainment, with countless masked assassins popping up in movies, TV shows and comics. For some reason, this freaked the hell…