60 years ago, Sugano Sensei planted a seed.
In the same year as a young aikido master arrived in Australia, television sets across the nation were tuned to an unlikely series that became a national phenomenon. Boys and girls were swapping their cowboy outfits to black ninja suits, waving improvised swords and flicking fake star knives (with ‘whwit, whwit, whwit’ sound effects) just like the …