Blogpost 8: The Last Ninja

Who's the last ninja? The last real ninja? Many people said that Jinichi Kawakami was the last ninja. And he also claimed that he's the one. That's why I kept on searching why Jinichi claimed that he's the last.

Jinichi Kawakami

As I googled Jinichi Kawakami, I found an article entitled "Japan's last ninja: Engineer, 63, who can hear a needle drop in the next room and kill from 20 paces is last in 500-year line of Japanese assassins" by Matt Blake from dailymail stated that He is trained to hear a needle drop in the next room, to disappear in a cloud of smoke or to cut a victim's throat from 20 paces with nothing more than a two-inch 'death star'. According to Matt, Jinichi said that "I think I'm called (the last ninja) as there is probably no other person who learned all the skills that were directly handed down from ninja masters over the last five centuries,' he said. 'Ninjas proper no longer exist."
I agreed with what Jinichi said because I don't think there's another person who can hear a needle drop in the next room. Only superhuman can do that thing.

Another article that I found entitled "Meet Japan’s ‘last ninja’: a 63-year-old former engineer" by Anthony Bartkewicz from nydailynews stated that when Jinichi Kawakami dies, he says, the deadly art of ninjitsu will die with him. Anthony also said that "The 63-year-old former engineer says he is the last living person to have learned all of the skills used by the spies and assassins of feudal Japan." Jinichi also said that "Ninjas proper no longer exist"

I think it's clear to us why he claimed him self  as the last ninja because of his supernatural skills. Skills that a normal person can't do and normal ninja can do.