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Located at the end of the Silk Road, Japan was the final destination of cultures of all kinds. Cretan acrobats, Egyptian sorcerers, Persian necromancers, and Chinese moutain hermits must have come to Japan. their techniques blended and matured into a collection of techniques inherent to Japan. The Palace of Knossos was only a mythological palace until Arthur Evans excavated it and proved that it was a historical fact. The line between a myth and a historical fact is blurred. Theseus went into the labyrinth killed Minotaur and came out alive. His tactics were similar to those of Ninjas. The Bull-Jumping Fresco found in the palace shows an athlete who leaped onto the bull's horns and is about to flip over. A stunt like this is exactly one of hte basic physical skills requires of a Ninja. There is enough evidence that Bull-Jumping was performed in Ancient Egypt as well. The existence of the Palace of Knossos, the saga of Theseus and the Bull-Jumping Fresco support the assumption that the origines of the art of the Ninjas were in Ancient Greece and Ancient Egypt.

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Editorial Review

A physicist sheds light on the history and the techniques of the Ninja.
Abe no Seimei, En'no Ozunu, Kashin Koji... tracing back through the history of human and culture to the roots of Ninja, the scientist of the 21st century analyzes. Unusual book of secret Ninja techniques. Did Sarutobi Sasuke really exist? (Sodosha)

Table of contents

• Preface
• Chapter 1: Stepping into a Labyrinth
• Chapter 2: Labyrinth of Ninja Technique
• Chapter 3: Searching for the Roots through the Labyrinth
• Chapter 4: Can we get out of the Labyrinth?

About the Author

Hitoshi Amano completed his Ph.D. at Kyoto University. His specialty is theoretical physics. He is internationally active in the areas of cosmology and space science, and is a professor of the International Earth Environment University in New York. He is also a poet. He has written several books including "Uchu no inochi ni iyasareru ikikata" (How to live, being healed by the life of outer space), "Seisho no Kagaku" (Science of the Bible), "Jinsei wo subarashiku tanoshiku ikiru hon" (Book to make your life wonderfully fun), "Uchu no gimon 602 wo color de tanoshimu hon" (Book to enjoy 602 questions about the universe in color).