In June last year, the Ninja Club was established with Yamada attached as adviser.

And when Yamada invited her to join an unveiling event for a shuriken throwing dojo (martial arts gym) that opened at the back of the Faculty of Humanities building, she went straight to the professor and begged him to form the club. When she was admitted to the university after graduating from the prefectural Tsu Higashi Senior High School, Suzuki attended Yamada’s class and kept asking him to set up a ninja club in questionnaires. With her sheer determination to become a ninja, Suzuki studied hard to get into Mie University, where Yuji Yamada, 52, a leading expert in ninja studies and professor in the school's Faculty of Humanities, teaches. When she was watching the “Nintama Rantaro” animated TV show, she found herself admiring ninja novices who develop superhuman skills by diligently making continuous efforts. She has always loved samurai TV dramas such as “Mito Komon” from an early age, and also became interested in “shugenja” ascetic hermits and “onmyoji” practitioners of 'onmyodo,' a type of esoteric cosmology.īut she became particularly fascinated by ninja when she was a junior high school student. Suzuki, who was born in Nara Prefecture, was raised in Tsu. She now serves as the second-generation president. Suzuki, a sophomore student of the school’s Faculty of Humanities, played a key role in establishing the club. Her daily practice is part of her activities at the Ninja Club founded in 2018, which is officially approved by Mie University. The 19-year-old has always wanted to be a ninja, and her passion never wanes.

TSU-Instead of a typical college student’s daily routine, Sora Suzuki practices throwing “shuriken” star-shaped daggers and studying ninja books to replicate techniques performed by the feudal-era covert agents.

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