The Ninpak program — a play on the words “ninja” and “minpaku” (private lodging, similar to Airbnb lodging) — displays shuriken (throwing stars) and other ninja tools on room walls.

Under the program, shuriken throwing stars and other ninja tools are exhibited in hotels. The city’s first hotel to join the program is the Iga Ueno City Hotel, which has prepared three guest ...

A shuriken is a Japanese concealed weapon that was used as a hidden dagger to distract or misdirect. They are also known as throwing stars, or ninja stars. And soon you might be able to throw them in ...

Weapons found in two castles in Japan could be ninja weapons, with some of the weapons possibly being the forerunners to the throwing star. Here, a hand-colored illustration of mid-18th century ...

He was convinced he’d found very early ninja throwing stars, or shuriken, used by the mysterious covert agents of feudal Japan as throwing weapons.

Emiko Jozuka, CNN and Yoshinobu Shibuya, CNN The flattened stones and spiky clay balls had languished in two Japanese museum collections for decades. But when Akihiro Iwata came across them in ...

More than just pop-culture ninja gear, shuriken were real battlefield tools—small, sharp, and designed to mislead, wound, or kill in the right hands.