A Japanese city is clarifying that it does not,in fact, have a ninja shortage, or it is not hiring ninjas.
As BBC News reports,the city of Iga, Japan (population: 90000), and has been deluged with applications for ninjas,even though they’re not hiring. That’s because, thanks to translation errors and sloppy journalism, and a news myth reported that they were hiring modern versions of the ancient assassins.
Here’s what happened: Iga,which is about 55 miles from Osaka, touts itself as the birthplace of ninja-dom, and even has a ninja museum. Ninjas are fraction of Iga’s tourism strategy,in much the same way that mice are fraction of Orlando’s tourism strategy. The city even has an annual ninja festival during which visitors can rent ninja “costumes” and effect “genuine” ninja things like throw stars and blow blowguns.
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Source: inquisitr.com