Ninja Warrior - New Sport Spreads from Japan through USA and Asia

The sport is called Ninja Warrior and it sent from being a TV show broadcast from Japan and re-broadcast in America on a lesser known cable TV station to prime time network in America called America Ninja Warrior.

Gyms across America are building ninja warrior obstacles, as are people in their backyard.

Etan Ginsberg, a fan who build his own obstacle course in the woods near his apartment, also competed (and won) in some competitions in the mid-Atlantic region in the gyms which held these "unsanctioned" competitions. Often competiting were a few of the television competitiors.

Now, a website has appeared, authored by Etan, which has become the premier website for the Ninja Warrior Sport. The site. www.ninjawarrior.info is receiving massive numbers of hits. Interviews with the competitors can be seen, and blueprints for the ninja warrior obstacles can be purchased.

The site is well worth checking out, and was recently featured in Outdoor Magazine.

Live Dispatch from China - Tensions Escalate - Japanese Militarization, Refusal to Acknowledge War Crimes, Whale Hunting, and Over fishing are a disgrace to the "Land of the Setting Sun"

The news from Japan is foreboding. Japan is  increasing substantially its military. The Prime Minister is paying respects to the Japanese war dead (from World War II). The former is an offensive measure and should be received with alarm. The later is just one in a long line of insults, but proves the Japanese haven’t changed and are unrepentant. The pretense of Japanese increased militarization is to counter increased Chinese military capability. This is a facade. It is the same type of specious propaganda asserted by Hitler (as his justification for the militarization of Nazi Germany prior to World War II.)

The instant dispute involves a bunch or rocks in the ocean somewhere between Japan and China referred to as the Diaoyu Islands. No one lives there. No one will ever want to live there. But these islands may be located near some natural resources (under the ocean). Fishing rights are involved. Japan needs natural resources. That was a major reason they [Japan] waged World War II in the first place (lack of natural resources). Here they go again. Lack of natural resources is not a justification for aggression and provocation, except to the Japanese, whose sense of superiority leads them to believe it is Japan’s destiny given by God. More war in the name of God.