A ninja museum in central Japan had some stealthy visitors this week – thieves who broke in and stole more than a million yen ($9,470) in the middle of the night. The Iga-ryu Ninja Museum, located in ...

A wanna-be ninja. Photo: Seth W. Jinichi Kawakami, a 63-year old engineer, is probably Japan’s last true-blue ninja. He’s the head of the Ban clan, a family that traces its ninja roots back 500 years.

TOKYO >> Japan is turning to those hooded samurai-era acrobatic spies known as ninja to woo tourism. The Japan Ninja Council, a government-backed organization of scholars, tourism groups and ...