Highlights
- Morimoto, a 38-year-old Tokyo resident earns Rs 5k approximately per client by simply accompanying and existing as an ally for them.
- Boasts how this work of doing nothing Japan earned him over a quarter million followers on Twitter by doing.
- Visits over one or two clients in a day. However, before the pandemic, it was 3 to four per day.
Japan Man
Shoji Morimoto does a job that may appear to many of us as a ‘dream job’. This Japan man gets his payment for doing pretty much nothing in particular.
The 38-year-old Tokyo man earns a handsome amount by just accompanying his clients. For this, he charges 10,000 yen (approximately Rs 5,633) per booking to go with and exist as an ally. Yes! You heard it right.
This japan man is doing what others dream only however, he makes it a reality.
An average-looking and lanky build Japan guy, Morimoto says that basically, he rents himself out. Elucidating more in detail he asserts that his job is to be wherever his clients want him to be and do nothing in particular. Also adding that, he has been doing this for four years now and has handled over 4000 sessions in the past 4 years, he mentions Reuters.
Boasts about the quarter million followers that he earned on Twitter
Talking about Twitter, this japan guy says by doing this work he has earned over a quarter million (250 K) followers over there.
Most of his clients connect with him through the micro-blogging site itself, he mentions. He also added One of his clients even hired him around 270 times now.
Does Morimoto agree with every client and the nature of the Job?
Morimoto asserts that he doesn’t accept all clients who contact him and that has turned down many offers in the past for the same reason. Like, one of them asked him to move a fridge and one even urged him to go to Cambodia. However, he has rejected all such offers and claims that he maintains some boundaries and does not agree to requests of sexual nature.
Morimoto with his recent client, a lady who wanted to wear a saree in public but was anxious to go with friends. With Morimoto, she felt convenient and fulfilled her desire.
Morimoto says that his recent client was a 27-years old data analyst named Aruna Chida who was nervous about wearing a saree in public. With friends, she felt the need to entertain them, however with the rental Japan chef guy (Morimoto) she doesn’t feel the need to be chatty, Chida told Reuters.
How Morimoto understood his true calling
Earlier Morimoto used to work with a publishing company where he was criticized for doing nothing. That was when he began reasoning ways in which his ability of ‘doing nothing’ can be turned into a resource.
Thereafter, he decided that he would use his ability to do nothing as a service to clients. Thus, he kick-started his companionship business.
“People tend to think that my ‘doing nothing’ is valuable because it is useful (for others) … But it’s fine to really not do anything. People do not have to be useful in any specific way,” Morimoto says.
Now, this business is his sole source of income for sustaining his family which comprises- his wife and child.
Pandemic effect on his business
On interrogation by the news agency Reuters, how much he is able to earn out of this, he refused to answer. However, adds that he meets about one or two clients a day.
The pandemic affected his business too, as before the pandemic he had three or four clients a day.
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