Ninja ‘affront’ angers kung fu monks

Chinese fighters reject allegation they were beaten by Japanese man

BEIJING - China’s Shaolin Temple, the cradle of Chinese kung fu, is demanding an apology from an Internet user who said its monks had once been beaten in unarmed combat by a Japanese ninja, Chinese media reported on Friday.

Ninjas — professional assassins trained in martial arts — date back to medieval Japan.

“The so-called defeat is purely fabricated, and we demand the Internet user to apologize to the whole nation for the wrongs he or she did

emotions still running high over Japan’s invasion and occupation of parts of China in the first half of the 20th Century.

Internet user, calling themselves “Five Minutes Every Day,” said

that a Japanese ninja came to Shaolin, asked for a fight and many monks failed to beat him

The Shaolin Temple “strongly condemned the horrible deeds” of the user, the newspaper said.

irresponsible behavior with respect to the Shaolin Temple

monks

and Chinese nation