Genichi Mitsuhashi, 45, the first person to hold a degree from Mie University's graduate course on ninja studies, teaches martial arts to a guest in a training hall next to his home in Iga, Mie Prefecture, central Japan July 30, 3020. Picture taken July 30, 2020. REUTERS/Akira Tomoshige
IGA, Japan (Reuters) - The mystique of Japan's once-feared covert warriors, spread by films and fiction, is embodied today in the world's first winner of a master's degree in ninja studies, who also grows his own crops, just as many of his predecessors did.
The modern black-clad ninja is Genichi Mitsuhashi, 45, who says he realised that ninjutsu, or ninja arts, held the key to survival after he was held up at gunpoint during a stay in Brazil at the age of 19.
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