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Originally Posted by webz

Everyone is a ninja today... even though the real “ninjas” as seen in movies (clad in black masks and robes) never existed. Read in a book a few years ago by a guy researching the ninja phenomenon. It was actually some of the earliest examples of fake news.

There were assassins for hire and spies in feudal Japan, but rather than pajamas, they dressed as regular farmers, or servants. The black clad masked men of the old Japanese art was propaganda. In Japan at that time, to sneak around was dishonorable. To wear a mask was dishonorable. So in the art of the time, they made ninja as men sneaking around in masks... cowards! They were dressed in black because it represented hiding in shadows, another cowardly act. That’s why you see the ninjas on the small, too. The samurai in the art is often huge, with no helmet on. Facing the cowards.

That's because the real ninjas weren't from Japan, they are from Nanda Parbat.