Shinobi Council

Hebijo Clandestine Girls' Academy (Indirectly)

The Senran Kagura Japanese **Shinobi Council** is the institution charged of managing and organizing the Shinobi in Japan. It is the oldest Shinobi-concerned institution, existing since about a millenium.

## Description

### Characteristics

It has no known number of Members, and probably exists since a millenium. As a council, it implies that it is composed of several great Shinobies with the objective of controlling the even concept of a Shinobi. It is deeply linked with the Japanese Governement.

### Authority

It has practically authority on every "Good Shinobi" schools, where it's decisions have the strenght of laws. On "Evil" and "Renegade" Shinobi, it has no official authority throught it do have officiously, deeply influencing them.

### Power

It is the institution who decided to separate Shinobies under a binary manichean system depending on if they work for the Governement or Private organizations.

They can ban a Shinobi and force it to be a renegade when it causes too much problems, and can vote and apply laws that strictly regulates the work of a Shinobi, can also decide of what the Schools must do against some situations. They are also charged to hide data from Normal humans and "Evil Shinobi" and to insufficiently-ranked Shinobies, such as Yoma-related data, reserved to Kaguras or at least graduated shinobi.

They can also name a whole team to chase Yomas, including a Kagura and numerous Elites or Lesser.

### Corruption - Facts

The Council is often accused of corruption. The accusations argue that the manichean system is used by the Council as a justification to murder those who don't work for the governement or them, and which is taught to young shinobi in a way they never put it in question. It is also argued that it allows and even favors incidents where rival schools kill each other.

The laws are also said to be abusive, because it doesn't recognize self-defense, doesn't consider Redemption, and guarantee death if any Shinobi make a single mistake such as failing a mission. Those who failed to enter their tests can enlist at Hebijo, which is under the same influence as the "Good Shinobi" Schools.

It is also said that the Council also manages the Shinobi sector as a business they live on, and thus that they encourage fights between Shinobi, and approve the death of "Evil Shinobi".

They can name anyone for a Yoma Expedition Team, allowing them to dispose of any indesired Shinobi as they wish.

### Since 1949 - Hiding the Corruption

The emergence of the UNO in 1945 and of the Tribunal of Geneva in 1949 which is specialized in Shinobi Affairs lifted a wave of panic inside the Council, as the Council is said to be far from respecting the UNO's fondamental texts. As Japan was submitted to USA, the latter, as major member of the UNO, had the right to take measures on the Japanese Shinobi Sectors.

To avoid the destruction of the Council and the ruin of a profitable yet dubious business, the members of the Council hid everything that happened in the Japanese Shinobi Sector to the Occidental Authorities, barely showing the sucessful Yoma hunts and some little fails. Not only it gave them a rather important prestige internationally, as they never told about their big fails, but it also allowed them to avoid the UNO from checking further, and eventually destroy the institution, arrest all his members, and take the control on the Japanese Sector.

Since then, they are still worried of someone who would denounce them, and send resistants, opponents, and other persons able to threat them to suicide missions.

### assassinations

one of the most important persons they killed was Henry the 39th and his Wife Yuki.