[Japan] How to Hire Fake Friends and Family

Nov 9, 2017 2:15 PM

lagom

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In Japan, you can pay an actor to impersonate your relative, spouse, coworker, or any kind of acquaintance.

Money may not be able to buy love, but here in Japan, it can certainly buy the appearance of love—and appearance, as the dapper Ishii Yuichi insists, is everything. As a man whose business involves becoming other people, Yuichi would know. The handsome and charming 36-year-old is on call to be your best friend, your husband, your father, or even a mourner at your funeral.

His 8-year-old company, Family Romance, provides professional actors to fill any role in the personal lives of clients. With a burgeoning staff of 800 or so actors, ranging from infants to the elderly, the organization prides itself on being able to provide a surrogate for almost any conceivable situation.

Yuichi believes that Family Romance helps people cope with unbearable absences or perceived deficiencies in their lives. In an increasingly isolated and entitled society, the CEO predicts the exponential growth of his business and others like it, as à la carte human interaction becomes the new norm.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/11/paying-for-fake-friends-and-family/545060/

welp wait for virtual reality too
fake it until you make it huh

Nov 9, 2017 2:18 PM

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All you need to do is yell "all drinks on me" in the bar and in a minute you'll see how many friends you'll have.

Next day even family.

Nov 9, 2017 3:03 PM

Moog

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Interesting choice of profession. I think the "rent a white guy to lounge around in a hotel to dine and drink wine" job in China requires less effort and is more up my alley, though.

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Nov 9, 2017 3:48 PM

Stripes

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I mean escorts are a thing for parties and events. Granted this is some next level shit.

The example in the article is pretty real stuff so I can see a use for the business.

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