For those who are still jobless or trying to get a decent paycheck off their monthly labor, here's your opportunity to live a good life while realizing your childhood dream of becoming a ninja just like Naruto and his Shinobi friends.
Central Japan's Aichi prefecture is currently searching for full-time Ninjas. You read it right, Shinobi working full-time at the historic Nagoya Castle.
While the job doesn't require experience in stealthy infiltration and a vast knowledge of all kinds of jetsus as it is merely for tourism purposes, it is assumed that an aspirant should possess ninja like physique, dexterity and 100 percent ninja aura to land the dream gig.
Satoshi Adachi, the head of Aichi's tourism promotion unit, stressed he wants Nagoya Castle ninja to be showy of their full arsenal of skills, doing all sorts of acrobatic maneuvers and at the same time having that Naruto-liked charisma to draw everybody attention to them.
"Just some of the things a tourism assassin will do are pull off acrobatics ("backward handsprings and some dance moves"), display their shurikenjutsu prowess, and do photo-ops with tourists, Adachi told AFP.
Ironically, the prefecture's job poster describes an ideal candidate as someone who "enjoy(s) being under the spotlight even though he or she is a secretive ninja."
In case you are wondering how at stake by doing all of these hooplas, well Aichi's government has just prepared a salary of ¥180,000 a month (that's a whopping $1,580 a month not including bonuses) for a one-year contract.
Oh before I forgot, the Ninja should speak fluent Japanese, though a nice command of an English language should be indispensible with all the tourism work.
So who's ready to follow the footsteps of Naruto at Nagoya Castle? All of you? Alright, yoshi!