Recently, the day of February 22 was declared the “National Ninja Day", at the initiative of 5 Japanese prefectures renowned for their ninja-related history: Kanagawa, Nagano, Mie, Shiga and Saga.
If you wonder, there wasn’t any ninja historical event on February 22nd… The day was actually selected due to a word play in Japanese: because it is written as 2/22, and the number 2 is pronounced in Japanese “ni“, the first syllable of the word ninja…
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