At Japanese shrines, there are not enough priests.
Recently, there is a problem of there not being enough priests at Japan's shrines.
Shrines are sacred places in Japan from long ago. Now, there are not many people who work there.
Due to that, like a business, the shrines are recruiting priests with good salaries and bonuses.
For example, at Fukuoka shrine and Menohama Sumiyoshi shrine, in order to look for priests, large recruitment billboards or set out.
In order to become a priest, it is necessary that the priest graduates from a particular school and studied and practiced for two years.
Because of that, it is very difficult to find people who can work immediately.
In Japan, there are approximately 78,000 shrines but only about 21,000 priests.
In Fukuoka, the number of priests to shrines is 1 to 5.
The priest now, not only do they pray, they manage social media and its homepages, the customer service, cleaning, and office work.
Kikuchi shrine's head priest says, "It is difficult to find an heir."
But they are solving the problem with a new method by having the female priest become the assistant.
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