{"id":15382,"date":"2017-05-30T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15382"},"modified":"2017-05-30T06:20:34","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T10:20:34","slug":"japan-is-running-out-of-ninjas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/japan-is-running-out-of-ninjas\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Is Running Out Of Ninjas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/053017_1019_JapanIsRunn1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"351\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Caroline Mortimer wrote about ninjas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tourism to Japan is increasing, and with it demand for ninja shows.<\/li>\n<li>But performance squads are reporting difficulties in finding ninja candidates.<\/li>\n<li>Instructors say that there are too many other career tracks for potential recruits. Japan&#8217;s ageing society also constricts supply.<\/li>\n<li>To be a good ninja one must be proficient in combat, stealth, acrobats, and, of course, skilled with throwing stars and swords.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/asia\/japan-ninja-shortage-foreign-tourist-shows-martial-art-nayoga-takatsugu-aoki-a7716011.html?ref=quuu&amp;utm_content=buffer6dd31&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\">Independent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caroline Mortimer wrote about ninjas: Tourism to Japan is increasing, and with it demand for ninja shows. But performance squads are reporting difficulties in finding ninja candidates. Instructors say that there are too many other career tracks for potential recruits. Japan&#8217;s ageing society also constricts supply. To be a good ninja one must be proficient [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/053017_1019_JapanIsRunn1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15382"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15385,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15382\/revisions\/15385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}