Ninjas, cats and pearls: Japan’s Kansai is unique in winter


Ninjas, cats and pearls make an unusual combination, but add on lacquer painting, tea and fish, and you get one thrilling winter experience in Kansai, Japan.

It's hard enough for the uninitiated to throw a dart, what more a shuriken (four-pronged metal star), at a dartboard. And sure enough, the journalist along with me on this media familiarisation trip not only missed the target, but the entire board it was on, with three throws. Our translator fared better, hitting the target at least once.

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