Iga Japan Is Facing A Ninja Shortage - Business Insider

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A small Japanese city is facing a ninja shortage —

even with salaries as high as $85,000
Tom Murray Jul. 17, 2018, 9:26 AM
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A man wearing a ninja costume and teaching at the Ninja School in Iga City, Japan. Phuong
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The Japanese city of Iga is suffering from a ninja shortage.
The city, which is about 280 miles from Tokyo in central

Japan, claims to be the birthplace of the ninja.
The mayor is hoping to bolster tourism by drawing on the

city's ninja heritage.
There's just one problem: There aren't enough ninjas.
You may have heard about Japan's demographic crisis, but the
country is facing another, lesser-known crisis as well.
Japan does not have enough ninjas.
In an episode of NPR's "Planet Money" podcast, Sally Herships visited

Iga, a small city in central Japan that claims to be the birthplace of
the ninja.
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Iga, however, is suffering from depopulation. "It's facing a shortage of

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those two key things you need to keep an economy humming: stuff to
sell and people to buy the stuff," Herships' cohost Stacey Vanek Smith
says.
Iga is also losing young people who don't want to live in the rural
countryside. To revive the local economy, the mayor of Iga, Sakae
Okamoto, is promoting the city's ninja heritage with the aim of
drawing more tourists.
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Women dressed as ninjas throwing "shuriken" during a ninja festival in Iga. REUTERS / Kim
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"Right now in Iga, we are working very hard to promote ninja tourism
and get the most economic outcome," Okamoto told Herships. "For
example, we hold this ninja festival between late April to around the
beginning of May. During this period visitors and also local people
come here. Everybody will be dressed like a ninja and walks around
and enjoys themselves — but recently I feel that it's not enough."
Japan is experiencing a major tourist boom — the United Nations

World Tourism Organization estimates that almost 29 million tourists
visited Japan in 2017. That's an increase of almost 20% from the year
before.
While some cities are benefitting economically from the influx of

tourists, rural ones like Iga are apparently being left out. 
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With the hope of encouraging tourists to stay longer than a day in Iga,
Okamoto is relocating city hall and building a second ninja museum
in its place. While the budget is not disclosed, Okamoto has received
funding from the central government
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government is funding ninjas," Herships says.
The project faces some hurdles, though. Iga needs to attract labor
forces to work and live in the rural city as the ninja tourism scheme is
extended.
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AP Photo / Junji Kurokawa
This means not just builders and planners but also ninjas themselves.
"There's a ninja shortage," Herships says, "or — to be accurate — a
ninja-performer shortage."
This issue is especially difficult given Japan's extremely low

unemployment rate, which is just 2.5%.
It is therefore hard to find workers in Japan, let alone highly

specialized ninja performers.
"Ninja is not an inheritable class. Without severe training, nobody

could become a ninja. That's why they have silently disappeared in
history," Sugako Nakagawa, the curator of the local ninja museum,
told Reuters in 2008.
"But this job does have a lot to offer," Herships says. "First of all, the
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Herships quotes the International Ninja Research Center, which

states that in Iga, the typical ninja earned an inflation-adjusted
$8,000 to $17,000 a year.
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Okamoto faces an uphill battle, though. The Mie Prefecture, where

Iga is located, as a whole attracted just 43 new young residents last
year; Iga alone lost 1,000 residents.
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10/10/2018 Iga Japan is facing a ninja shortage - Business Insider

A small Japanese city is facing a ninja shortage —

The Japanese city of Iga is suﬀering from a ninja shortage.

The city, which is about 280 miles from Tokyo in central

The mayor is hoping to bolster tourism by drawing on the

There's just one problem: There aren't enough ninjas.

Japan does not have enough ninjas.

In an episode of NPR's "Planet Money" podcast, Sally Herships visited

Iga, however, is suﬀering from depopulation. "It's facing a shortage of

Japan is experiencing a major tourist boom — the United Nations

While some cities are beneﬁtting economically from the inﬂux of

privacy statement for more information. I AGREE 

government is funding ninjas," Herships says.

AP Photo / Junji Kurokawa

This issue is especially diﬃcult given Japan's extremely low

It is therefore hard to ﬁnd workers in Japan, let alone highly

"Ninja is not an inheritable class. Without severe training, nobody

Herships quotes the International Ninja Research Center, which

Okamoto faces an uphill battle, though. The Mie Prefecture, where

SEE ALSO: How an American became one of Japan's rare

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