Gov't recruiting Visit Japan Campaign ambassadors

Sunday 12th October, 05:36 PM JST

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ProfessorJ at 08:13 PM JST - 12th October

Ambassadors will be provided with 300 business cards with an ambassadorial title and special badges for their unpaid jobs.

Cheapskates. You get what you pay for, so don't expect anything other than unemployed retiree/housewife bums who love badges and their first business cards.

...already appointed renowned fashion designer Junko Koshino and 26 other people as ambassadors

Will these people also be uncompensated? I doubt it.

Pay me. Especially if I'm going to lie through my teeth along with the others about how rosy the place is. Otherwise you'll get the reality version served up straight, and cold, cram-school style for the 7-day visitor.
rjd_jr at 10:08 PM JST - 12th October

This is a really good idea. But let's just hope that some of the individuals seriously do not apply for this job. It's an important job that requires dedication and hard work, not nitpicking, generalizing, and complaining.
BlackFlag at 10:11 PM JST - 12th October

It's an important job that requires dedication and hard work

no, it isnt.
borscht at 10:44 PM JST - 12th October

Academic experts will be choosing the winners. What do academic experts know about encouraging people to visit a foreign country let alone choose which applicant will make a 'dedicated and hardworking' ambassador?
ProfessorJ at 10:49 PM JST - 12th October

But let's just hope that some of the individuals seriously do not apply for this job

Especially those with zero experience living in Japan.
Sarge at 11:03 PM JST - 12th October

"seek applicants, regardless of nationality, age and sex"

That's a first here.
realist at 12:40 AM JST - 13th October

Mybe they wont pay them much because these people will have a difficult job - attracting foreign visitors to a place that doesnt want or desire them.
larguero at 12:43 AM JST - 13th October

"the government is looking for someone who has been engaged in unique activities" I once touched the testicles of a monkey. Am I qualified?
northlondon at 02:19 AM JST - 13th October

Let's see now. How about this for a pitch on visiting Japan:- 'The big izakaya on the corner by Nogizaka station has great seafood, is busy every night and is incredibly cheap. It has a branch in Jingumae which also has great seafood....although the Japanese customers will be served before you and as a foreigner your food will come last'. Errm, maybe not. Give me time to think of something else...
LIBERTAS at 03:34 AM JST - 13th October

Pick me! Pick me! A tour of Japan's tattered environment would be my first suggestion! I'm uniquely qualified as I dodged death by radiation exposure in Tokaimura once. Pick me! Pick me!
ProfessorJ at 03:54 AM JST - 13th October

Here's my sell. Starts with a limited express from Narita standing up, and then when you finally get a seat the people next to you get up and move away like you have the Nora virus. The people on the other side of the train stare at you like you have the Ebola virus. When you get off at Ueno, do a tour through the non-existent homeless villages. Then pop in to a real estate agency to be told they don't have anything. Get on the Yamanote line and indulge in a little groping. Now that you're in the mood, get off at Shibuya and pay a high school girl to go to a hotel. Afterwards buy her a nikuman from a nearby convenience store and get food poisoning. Drop 50,000 yen on your way back to the station in the smoke parlours known as pachinko. Get home at 11.30 to find some cold karaage on the kitchen table, your wife long asleep, your son mumbles something which may or may not be acknowledging your existence, and your daughter has just come home after you, she has a new Louis Vuitton bag but no job as far as you know. Go to bed, get up four hours later, rinse and repeat.
NuckinFutz at 05:56 AM JST - 13th October

"seek applicants, regardless of nationality, age and sex"

But when it comes to the selection process I'm sure only Japanese will be considered.
Nessie at 10:07 AM JST - 13th October

Do I get diplomatic immunity?
YangYong at 04:41 PM JST - 13th October

Isn't Hello kitty on the case?
studebaker at 10:35 AM JST - 14th October

That station attendant cat in wakayama should be an ambassador too. He's fit for the job.