What is Ninja?

Ninja is very popular character of Japan.Ninja is mercenary and otherwise act like spy.Traditionally Daimyo hired Ninja, but Daimyo disappeared with the end of Edo period, so Ninja loses meaning of existence. Nowadays it is very difficult to find real Ninja in Japan.Very few people still use the real technique of Ninja.

Ninja's physical ability is said to equal in a top athlete.They can jump over 3 meters and move about 4000 km a day.They can use unique skills called Ninjyutu. By Ninjutu they control　fire and water.They can also disappear whenever they want .

Ninja trained hard everyday for survival.　If many people tried to kill a Ninja, probably he will survive.One famous training is jumping over planting hemp everyday.Hemp is a fast growing plant.

It is very good training for enforcing jumping power. Hemp grows three meters in height in about four month.

They run binding long cloth round his waist, so that it does not stick to the ground.This training is very effective for improving running skills.

Ninja's surviving skills are depend on everyday's hard training.

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How to be friends with Japanese

Hello! My name is Akira Ohashi. I'm living in Japan. I will tell you the real style of Japan.Many Japanese are shy to people from abroad and not good at speaking English.If you want Japanese friends, don't be afraid of taking to them and don't forget to speak slowly to Japanese,so that they can understand your English.

Some Japanese are love to study English. They want the chance to brush up their English.We Japanese have few chance to speak English in Japan.So if you visit Japan it might be better to  find the person who love to speak English.Japanese English educational system are terribly bad.That’s why many Japanese can’t speak English well enough.They wish to study English from people from abroad.

There are International Communications Association in each regions.It  will help you making friends and get the useful infomation about Japan.I hope you enjoy Japan and have a wonderful time in this country.