How Ninja Lived in Ancient Japan | Koka Village Story

[@NinpoRalph]

Thank you for your detailed insight.

[@DenshaOtoko2]

I have been here before. It was a lot of fun!

[@kochichris]

I was iga in 2019😊 electric train from namba station osaka to iga, ninja Village close by iga castle, sakura season great there🌸🌸🌸🌸the ninja Village base a bit on naruto.

[@yesyoga]

This is GREAT! 🎯I’m watching it on Loop. Shared with friends. ⚔️😘

[@Hatredspeaks]

2:22 his pose with the hand like jutsu reminds me of the anime Naruto soo much lol

[@teresa_davis]

This is such an excellent and well done video! Gives you a great insight into the life of the Ninja! Great job John! Thank you!

[@jason_from_canada]

Being a Ninja was no easy task. All those skills to stealthily avoid being caught. Having a keen awareness of your surroundings, one's radar always on. Interesting to see all the tools of the trade too. ⚔ Great job scaling that wall John! 🥷👍

[@JamaleErvin-ce3lf]

I’m a big fan of koka ninjas 🥷🏽 .

[@TJ_Rider]

Everyone who watches John's live streams must watch this edited content. Dooooo it :)

[@annasahlstrom6109]

I love ninjas.

[@aryogono6338]

7:47 btw amazing that they even have a 🥷 school. Another fun episode 👍🏽. Thank you for the early access.

[@ChoPi-Eww]

Aww man, I wanted to see the ninjas in a bounce house castle

[@Floating.Swords]

Learned something new and interesting today. Thanks for taking us to Koka City, John-san!

[@bronp1457]

Really enjoyable John, nice work!

[@scottieh6542]

Interesting and fun episode. Great job as always, John!

[@athinaios1828]

the ninjas will never forgive you for not putting this episode on the main channel😠

[@MsDarouny]

Love all your videos. Love how you are featuring places to visit that the majority of tourist aren't aware of. Definitely have to re-visit Japan more than once to explore so many unique places. Thank you again for putting a ton of hard work into making these informative videos. ❤

[@biancajune8963]

Awesome video as always!!

[@keosh777]

Very interesting vlog. Thanks !! :)

[@Perceval777]

As long as you keep in mind that most of this is just for fun and entertainment and not actually historical, then it's great. (E.g. there was no such thing as a ninja sword or ninja house - the house they show is a typical samurai house, the "ninja" in Kouka and Iga were jizamurai, they were part of the samurai class, the battle for Minakuchi Okayama castle was not between ninja and samurai, etc.)

[@michaelsasano8622]

Loved this video! I used to enjoy watching old Japanese samurai shows on TV that had ninjas. I even recall playing a video game called Shinobi where you were a ninja that threw stars and used a sword to eliminate the bad guys. KZbin streamer by day... Only in Ninja-pan by night! 😊

[@SomeWhereOverTheRainbow1]

Another great video love it

[@lunabaphomet]

Soooo cool😮

[@pookienumnums]

La Koka Nostra vibes with that beat at the start. Lol.

[@mariondavia8178]

That is what I call a very good and interesting video people like myself and other that's educacional that's very good but in the area I believe there was a movie studio that used to used to film TV series samurai movies is that still there and if so maybe you could do a video but keep up the good work that's pretty good and maybe when you're in the yokosuka area or in the Tokyo area maybe you could do a sequel on a lot of abandoned houses there in yokosuka in the two old district I understand that there is at least

[@PhotoLukeHawaii]

What a fun episode!!! Thanks John-san 🤙🏽😊. Very very cool!!!

[@Cliffdog01]

So did the Ninja clans stop at the same time as the Samurai during the Meiji restoration or since they were already in hiding did they hold on longer?

[@thedesertsspeaks]

Great job on the video John, without watching your videos for the last 8 years and your vast knowledge of Japan, my wife and I would not have had the inside knowledge of what Japan has to offer. We had the opportunity to visit the Togakushi Ninja Museum in Nagano 3 weeks ago. The ninja trick mansion was tough to get through. It’s amazing how they had all the secret passages! We also had the chance to hang out with Kevin for the day in Osaka, he’s waiting for you two to do a video on the incineration plant. 😄🐒

[@onlyinjapanGO]

That’s very nice to say and makes me happy to hear ^_^ thank you! I’m so glad you could catch up with Kevin! I hope to see him once this year, maybe later this month. Yeah - first, have to get permission! They keep saying no.

[@HawaiiJapan808]

That castle was too much. 😂 love it

[@Suede224]

Well I now have a new place I want to visit!

[@nicolefz92]

😊Outstanding 👑

[@Mit0ch0dria]

Amazing video John and thank you for sharing!

[@mjhaytheexplorer9397]

I just went here yesterday and I do enjoyed the ninja training it’s feel so amazing when I came here I am a huge fan of ninja since I was a kid lucky to visit the real ninja place even in Iga I went already 😊

[@jarihult]

Quite interesting premiere about Ninjas and the ninja🥷Village 😎Thank you John🙂👍!!!

[@SomeWhereOverTheRainbow1]

You do very good with filming and educating people keep it up

[@popseehesaid4950]

Love videos😎

[@YamanoteJames]

Awesome video. I love the content John, keep it up.

[@friedpork_owl]

My son will be six soon. Hopefully he can start Ninja training. Cheers

[@robng9064]

I tought this was the other channel considering the editing Edit: also very well explaned by him and translated by you

[@japanblue5816]

こうかKOKA　だったんですねー！　今まで こうがKOUGAと思っとりましたー勉強になります！😊　5：17　壮大なイベントやってありますねーさすが忍者の本場！😆　Hisutory of Ninja も勉強になりました 行ってみたかですー！　九州佐賀にも忍者村ありますのでどうぞー！　😃

[@User-kjxklyntrw]

We want know about "Sugendo"

[@annedugan3161]

Fascinating! You did a great job!!!

[@stacyscooby8488]

Amazing wow love learning about the history wow .

[@REVIEWSONTHERUN]

Wonderful video! Cool story. Thanks for sharing it. ✌️

[@jimihendrixx11]

The buildings back then were/are quite small

[@AutumnRed]

very interesting video John, now we need a second visit but this time to the Iga Ninja village

[@onlyinjapanGO]

We’ll see how people like THIS episode. Ninja are hard to tell a story about without getting into role playing and bright colored costumes, anime and manga. I liked that there was a historical foothold in this episode.

[@yanmasa6930]

Kohga/Koga. not Koka. Iga and Kohga are the two main schools of Ninja.

[@johnwakamatsu3391]

Thank you for the video

[@onlyinjapanGO]

You’re welcome 🥷🏽

[@matiasbrandolini]

Awesome to know

[@OleksandrSe]

Cool channel. Found you accidentally 😁

[@GaminRage]

It's cool to know that iga ninja were real. I first heard of them in my favourite Super Nintendo video game called Inindo. 😁👍🏼👍🏼 🤜🏻🤛🏻

[@nubient]

Anata mo ninja, watashi mo ninja...

[@carolineindacityphx]

Thank you for sharing the Ninja history with us. Such a rich and amazing history! VEGAN NINJA and John Daub. A formidable force to be reckoned with. I watched the Shinobi Youchi and it was such a fun and amazing reeanactment of the famous battle between Samurai and Ninja with mighty nerf swords. The battle was fierce but thankfully no ninjas were lost in the battle. These type of events endear the Japanese culture to me. They are a wonderful people. ❤ PS: You scaled that wall like a pro, John! Are you sure you are not Ninja?!!!

[@moxavenger]

Of course the castle is no longer there. It's next door to Ninjas!🥷

[@BoyAditya]

Did you upload to wrong channel? I thought the non live video on John Daub channel?

[@arkie14]

Heh funnily enough I was just thinking the same thing :)

[@onlyinjapanGO]

No, I also upload here too, you can see it’s 99% live but some stories I don’t put on the main channel go here. I’ve not done much on Ninja 🥷🏽 This is one of them. I only went for a 1.5 days so not a lot of time in the topic but if people are interested, I might make a main channel episode :)

[@arkie14]

@@onlyinjapanGO Ahhh cool! Well that was a really enjoyable vid. Thank you very much. Love your work! 😄

[@UFOBobTV]

This was a lot of fun to watch. But I wonder what real ninja from centuries ago would think if they could see this video and those who pretend to fight battles.BTW I love the idea of freelance ninjas.

[@onlyinjapanGO]

Ha! Well, they can no longer slaughter someone for being critical or insolent 😂 people got weak, probably - but there is peace and love ☮️ freelance ninja 🥷🏽 hahaha

[@jamesherman3750]

Hey John, did you upload this to the wrong channel?

[@onlyinjapanGO]

No

[@jillmondt5398]

Those Ninja were the James Bond of their time. Mad respect.

[@hoinguyen-lj1jt]

0:45 those are cosplayers, not ninjas.

[@90293Mike]

The Ninja who took the Shinkansen. He defeated his enemies.

[@awsumcreations7604]

lol a vegan ninja that's crazy

[@kezbot2]

Very cool, John! It must have been a scary time as a citizen during that era with all that going on at night. Nice rock climbing too! 🥷

[@FullKarenMusic]

Not accurate....Still exploiting the black uniform ninja myth. Having read the Banshukai, they were called shinobi no mono and wore waraji not air jikatabi. Mostly samurai acted as and training spies to gather intelligence and insurgence. Hidden doors were common during the sengoku jidai. There is no evidence of ninjato. Square tsuba yes. "Ninja" attacking a castle is more about distractions and setting fires to make invasion by samurai easier. Samurai is a class meaning samurai woman were samurai but not normally bushi(warriors). You don't have to be a samurai to act as a shinobi no mono but many were. Kunoichi are shinobi no mono. But being a shinobi no mono does not mean you can fight. You gather intelligence. Read some translations like the Bansenshukai, Shinobi Hiden, or the Shoninki, published by Antony Cummins

[@Mystic_Edge]

Can ninja do kancho?

[@onlyinjapanGO]

It was a problem in every village, mysterious wedgies - you'd turn around and see no one, nothing. So the ninja Kancho can neither be confirmed nor denied.

[@Mystic_Edge]

@@onlyinjapanGO John please! I'm not being serious 🤣

[@baeber]

Kancho is very scary...

[@JoseAlba87]

😅 modern day ninja is a historian

[@Master-Mo]

I thought ninjas were assasins, aka evil people.

[@Perceval777]

No, they were mostly spies - they dressed as monks, merchants, traveling actors/performers, etc. and gathered information. They didn't fight (as you might think when watching this video) or commit assassinations (with a few exceptions).