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Doctorate degree, bilingual communication skills, and research regarding plants and animals are only requirement for mysterious position with Pok\u00e9mon Company<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Professor Oak has a pretty good job, doesn\u2019t he? As the Kanto Region\u2019s leading Pok\u00e9mon scholar, he spends his days using his intellect to deepen mankind\u2019s understanding of, and affinity for, all sorts of Pocket Monster species.<\/p>\n Of course, Oak isn\u2019t the only great mind in his field, as other regions have their own Pok\u00e9mon Professors, and that apparently goes for our world too, as the Pok\u00e9mon Company has posted a job opening for a real-world professor-caliber candidate<\/strong>.<\/p>\n In Japanese, the Pok\u00e9mon Professors are called hakase<\/em>, meaning \u201cdoctor,\u201d as in someone with a PhD. On Monday, the Pok\u00e9mon Company placed a posting on Japanese professional recruiting site HRMOS with the title \u201cSeeking doctoral candidates.\u201d<\/strong> The required qualifications are similarly broad, with only three listed:<\/p>\n 1. A PhD in science and engineering or agriculture<\/strong> As long as you\u2019ve got those three, the Pok\u00e9mon Company would like to hear from you, and they\u2019ll figure out what your exact assignment in the company will be based on your skill set and experience<\/strong>. Salary will be negotiated in the range of 7 to 11 million yen (US$45,000-$71,000), with the potential of yearly raises each spring.<\/p>\n While the requirement of detailed scientific knowledge of plants or animals might sound like the Pok\u00e9mon Company is ready to start trying to create actual Pocket Monsters, it\u2019s more likely that they\u2019re seeking such expertise to help with design work and spin-off projects for the franchise<\/strong>. Though they all have fantastic elements, many Pok\u00e9mon species draw inspiration from real-world flora and fauna, and creating what feel like viable ecosystems for the worlds of the games and anime go a long way in creating a sense of immersion and fun for fans. As a matter of fact, the Pok\u00e9mon Company already has at least one PhD on staff<\/strong>, Yoshinari Yonehara, a doctor of agriculture, who was in charge of creating the Pok\u00e9cology<\/em> encyclopedia of Pok\u00e9mon ecology, a book with illustrations from Chihiro Kinoshita, a fellow agricultural doctorate and sea turtle researcher. There\u2019s also been a Pok\u00e9mon museum exhibit that uses Pok\u00e9mon skeleton sculptures to teach kids about fossils<\/a>, and half of Pok\u00e9park Kanto<\/a>, the Pok\u00e9mon amusement park area that recently opened in Tokyo, is a nature walk, presenting another way in which the franchise intersects with real-world nature.<\/p>\n \u25bc Pok\u00e9cology<\/em>, published by Shogakukan<\/p>\n The mention of both Japanese and English communication skills in the job listing indicates that non-Japanese applicants are welcome, though as this is a non-remote position, the successful candidate will need to commute to the Pok\u00e9mon Company\u2019s headquarters in downtown Tokyo\u2019s Roppongi neighborhood.<\/p>\n Source: HRMOS<\/a>, Denfamico Gamer<\/a><\/em> Doctorate degree, bilingual communication skills, and research regarding plants and animals are only requirement for mysterious position with Pok\u00e9mon Company. Professor Oak has a pretty good job, doesn\u2019t he? As…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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