Japan wants six full-time ninjas to promote tourism at salary of $1600 pm

Every country wants to promote tourism and Japan is no exception. It wants six full-time ninjas who have a way with words and can do backward handsprings. The monthly salary would be about $1,600 a month. The requirement is that of Central Japan's Aichi prefecture. It has said that it is hiring full-time ninjas -- the martial-arts masters and stealth special assassins of feudal times -- to promote tourism in the area known for historic Nagoya castle.
The target is to promote tourism as an economic growth driver ahead of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
This has been reported in ibnlive.com dated 13 March 2016.

The newly hired ninjas will get a one-year contract and they will have to perform acrobatics, do backward handsprings and some dance moves and demonstrate the use of their trademark "shuriken" -- ninja star -- weapons and pose for photographs with tourists. The ideal candidates would be those who "enjoy being under the spotlight even though he or she is a secretive ninja".
In addition, ability to speak in Japanese is preferable. However, non-Japanese individuals who are passionate about history and tourism are welcome because the troupe will sometimes perform in English. In short, the ninjas must be good at talking to promote tourism even though ninjas are basically required to be secretive. They will have to go through a one-month training course in April.
Applications will be accepted until March 22 and men and women aged 18 or above of any nationality can apply. Incidentally, ninjas are mostly confined to history books and fiction but they are also used to promote Iga. This city located some 350-Km southwest of Tokyo near the ancient imperial capital of Kyoto that was once home to many ninjas.


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