Calling all ninja fans!
Are you quiet as a mouse? Can you blend into the background? Are you silent but deadly? Do you look good in black? Or maybe orange? Do you hate samurai for some reason?
Then the small Japanese city of Iga, the birthplace of the ninja, is looking for you!
The town is suffering from a rather unique problem where the number of ninja living in it are on the decline.
As such, the city is looking to pay $85,000 to anyone willing to travel there and be a ninja.
Yes, you read that right.
Right now in the real world, there is a city that you can travel to, train to be an actual, real-life ninja and actually get paid really well for it!
The city has a population of 100,000 people who are also most likely ninjas.
They are facing a crisis of younger people moving to larger cities and giving up the ninja way. (Naruto would be ashamed!)
According to an NPR Podcast, ninja can earn from $23,000 to $85,000! That’s roughly RM 93,000 to RM 345,000.
Before you grab your kunai and Naruto-run your way over the ocean to Japan to live your ninja dreams of standing on a giant frog, there’s a catch.
These ninja aren’t the blade-carrying, wall-running, assassinating, dog summoning, water-walking type from fiction.
What the town is actually looking for are “ninja performers” to attract tourists and carry out displays of physical feats.
That being said, what an amazing opportunity this is!
Travel to a foreign country, learn a new language (probably), become the real world version of a ninja, AND you get to put ‘Ninja’ in your resume, which is just awesome.
So now we pose the question to you, dear readers.
Are there any among you who might be interested to move to Japan and learn the way of the ninja?
Header Image Source: Maxim
