Show Japanese Spies of Feudal Time Said to Be A lost art may have had a lot to do with the final defeat of Japan if stories of feudal arts currently circulating here are to be Many Japanese have in discussions with American newsmen and others that In feudal Japanese spies had the knack of making themselves a claimed of the especially gifted said the secret weapon had not been used for a years or when they did use he the ancient Japs used it only among During the feudal days of when rivalry suspicion and intrigue among military leaders were the Japanese developed the art of spying to a high Local war lords always had spies in the territories of their The ears of captured spies often were sent home on The more wary of the spies learned to make themselves an art called Japanese legends are full of the accomplishments of these but people today admit the claims may be a little experts really They mastered their art only after years of hard Sanzo one of downtown Tokyo's best knows all about the because he's a great-great-great-grandson o f of the best operators that ever lived in Here's what Sanzo says his ancient relative my honorable ancestor was still a he first learned to walk and run fast faster than ordinary persons He trained himself to go without eating and sleeping for many my wise and honorable ancestor learned to walk softly and noiselessly to climb perpendicular Jump over open and shut doors In and see things in and developed an especially keen sense of my guileless nd honorable ancestor went on a mission for his he dressed himself in a black outfit which covered whole held and except small for the He selected a moonless night and scaled the outer wall of the place he intended to enter If he met anyone in the he flattened himself against the wall or Jumped up and held his body in mid air the person by grab the went wherever he pleased and listened in on the household of his master's adversary When he had obtained his he silently returned to report it So far as occupation personnel the ait of the invisible spies has not been practiced in modern Even Sanzo believes not The modern electric he ad would have even his honorable great-great great-grandfather for a I I |