Can you find someone to share when you are happy, someone to talk to when you are sad, and someone to accompany you when you are lonely? In the noisy and bustling big city, there are countless lonely patients, especially in the Japanese society where people “don’t want to cause trouble to others”, people are far apart but can’t get close, so all kinds of “rental” businesses have been born, renting out lovers and renting out friends. , even renting out yourself.
Shoji Morimoto, who is 38 years old this year and lives in Tokyo, has rented himself out on Twitter in the name of “レンタルなんもしない人 (Mr. Ren who does nothing)” since 2018, and has accumulated nearly 250,000 supporters so far. As the name suggests, it is to go to the designated place to quietly accompany the guests, and do nothing.
He said that in addition to simply accompanying the guests, some guests hired him to play rocking boards together in the park, and some hired him to the train station to see off their relatives when they were away. There were even guests who wanted to wear Indian clothes, but were worried regarding the Being rejected by his friends and looking for him to accompany him.
Although it was a rental, Morimoto Shoji did not plan to charge at first, because he thought that once the charge was made, customers would expect him to provide corresponding services. More and more people came to him, so he had to formally charge him 10,000 yen (regarding HK$540) per rental. In the past 4 years, he has received more than 4,000 orders, and one-quarter of them are repeat customers.
Before Shoji Morimoto found this career, he worked in a publishing company, and was often scolded for “doing nothing”, but instead, he had a whim, thinking regarding how to provide “doing nothing” as a service to customers. Today, his rental job has become his only source of income and is enough to support his family. His deeds have also been written into books and remade into TV series.
Source: Comprehensive report
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