Ninja presence in Russia

Last updated June 07, 2023

Ninja-Russia relation refers to the international relations between the Ninja, Japanese covert agents, and historical Russian countries such as the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. Russia was the first western country that ninja confronted and among the earliest countries that recognized the existence of ninja and researched them.

Ninja research in Russia

In the early 20th century, some research about ninja developed.

Roman Kim, the Koryo-saram born in Vladivostok, went to Japan to study at 7 years old.^{[ citation needed ]} After returning to Russia he became an instructor in Japanese language and history of far east of Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies. He gave a detailed account of ninja and ninjutsu in the annotation of "The Roots of the Japanese Sun" (1927) by Boris Pilnyak. This was the first study of ninja in Russia and one of the earliest foreign researchers of Ninja. Until the 1930s, Kim ordered sources from Japan and planned to complete a new paper about ninja.^[1] Actually, Kim himself was a spy of the Soviet Union; in 1937 he stole a confidential document from the Japanese Embassy and received Order of the Red Star.^[1] He was arrested as Japanese spy in the same year, and engaged in the translation of Japanese confidential documents in prison till the end of WWII. His new paper about ninja was never finished. After the war, he became an author of spy fiction, including a novel about ninja.^[2]

Modern Ninja researchers in Russia

Fyodor Kubasov (Фёдор Кубасов), born in Saint Petersburg studied about ninja in Mie University under Yūji Yamada, one of the most prominent ninja researchers in Japan from 2007. The contents of his research ranged from the relationship between Ninja and yamabushi to oversea reactions to ninja such as the writings by his precursor, Roman Kim. He also worked as the English translator of Banke Shinobinoden.^[3]^[4]^[5]

In popular culture

Red Shadow – Olga (Alina Kabaeva), Russian thief who fought with kunoichi (Kumiko Asō).
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty – Olga Gurlukovich, a Russian mercenary who appeared as "Cyborg Ninja".
Grisaia: Phantom Trigger – one of main characters, Murasaki (voiced by Atsumi Tanezaki), calls herself a Russian ninja.

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