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In mid-July, a National Public Radio story mentioned that the city of Iga, Japan––the birthplace of the ninja, allegedly––was struggling to keep its ninja-based tourism industry alive due to lack of labor force. The source of the confusion was this line from the NPR story: “”Iga will build a second ninja museum [but faces a] labour shortage…. [which] also extends to ninjas. There’s a ninja shortage, or to be accurate, a ninja-performer shortage.” This led to a mass wave of applications for the position of ninja, forcing the city to shut it down.

Full story at BBC.

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