The Japan Ninja Council - an organization that promotes tourism through the study and spread of ninja culture - has released the results of its "Ninja Global Poll", an international survey that quizzed people from 11 countries around the world about their knowledge and opinions regarding the deadly art of assassination.
The survey was administered to about 200 people total from such places as China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, the United States, Australia, France, and Germany. The survey was also administered to about 300 people from Japan, for a total of 500. Of this pool, fully 98.7% indicated that they were at least passingly familiar with ninja.
Furthermore, when quizzed about whether ninja were still up to their ninja-shenanigans in the modern world, 63.1% responded in the affirmative, ranging in belief from the idea that the ninja clans were still around (but with reduced numbers) to the idea that ninja are practically everywhere. Indonesia and the U.S. proved strongest in their ninja-faith, with 78.9% and 73.7% of the respondents respectively believing that even now ninja are on the prowl.
Finally, when asked if they'd like to be a ninja, 49.6% of the respondents agreed that they wanted to ninja in the night. (Apparently just over half of the respondents were, in fact, against the ninja.) The desire to be a shinobi was especially strong in Thailand, where 80.8% of the respondents declared their affinity for the shadow arts.
For more information about the Japan Ninja Council, please check out their official English language home page here.
Source: Excite News Japan via Otakomu
Paul Chapman is the host of The Greatest Movie EVER! Podcast and GME! Anime Fun Time.
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