The job listing mentions that experience is not necessary

Mar 7, 2014 20:01 GMT  ·  By

An unusual job listing searching for an entry-level ninja has been spotted online recently. A Japanese employment service has published the advert announcing that the perfect candidate will be teaching elementary school children in Japan.

The job listing, posted on Hello Japan, a government-run employment website, says that the chosen ninja will be given appropriate clothing and a "book of secrets" to teach from, as reported by Rocket News 24.

In another post, the employment company mentions that a person with actual ninja experience is preferred, but the ideal candidate would be someone who likes both ninjas and children, as he will be teaching kids at the Tanaka Ninja School in Nagoya, which is part of a larger organization called Shin-Nihon Kyouiku (New Japan Education).

This organization offers special cultural courses that are a little different from what they normally teach at public schools, such as calligraphy and foreign languages like Chinese, Korean and Spanish.

As a ninja instructor, the future employee will have to decode the secret documents of ninjutsu and to share his ninja knowledge and skills with his students.

Don't worry if you're not a master, as the advert says it's just an entry-level job, so you're not required to do martial arts and acrobatics. However, kids might be disappointed if their instructor doesn't break out any ninja moves.

The listing also says it's a part-time job, so the future teacher will have to work at least an hour a day and at least a day a week. The only downside is that the pay starts at only 900 yen ($8.73/€6.28) per hour, with a travel reimbursement of 1,000 yen ($9.71/€6.98) per day.

Ninjutsu is the martial art, strategy, and tactics of unconventional warfare, as well as the art of espionage supposedly practiced by the ninjas. It used to be a separate discipline in some traditional Japanese schools, which integrated study of more conventional martial arts, like kenjutsu, sojutsu and bōjutsu.

If you scout through the Internet, you will see that there are many weird job listings that apparently require ninja skills. According to a previous analysis, the number of job listings containing the term “ninja” has increased about 2,505% in May 2012 compared to May, 2006, to 469 job postings from 18 listings.

However, the analysis found that the term was mainly used in adverts published by software developing companies, so they weren't actually looking for real mercenaries trained in martial arts.