{"id":23996,"date":"2022-01-12T15:18:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T10:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=23996"},"modified":"2022-01-12T15:18:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T10:18:02","slug":"japanese-man-does-nothing-but-earns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/23996","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Man does nothing but earns"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A man who makes a living by renting himself out to do nothing has garnered an enormous following online and thousands of clients. For 10,000 yen plus expenses for travels and meals, anyone can rent Shoji Morimoto, 37, from Tokyo in Japan, but he will not do anything except \u201ceat, drink and give a simple response\u201d.<\/p>\n

A Japanese man Shoji Morimoto started working in the Rent-a-Person industry for free when he first posted his services on Twitter in 2018, The Independent reported.<\/p>\n

Before earning money by doing nothing, Morimoto worked for a publisher in Japan. He eventually left the company after having trouble fitting in, The Mainichi reported. It also did not help that his boss allegedly said, \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter if you\u2019re here or not.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He eventually started charging for his services as a way to ward off people who might waste his time. Morimoto charges his client 10,000 yen (approximately $87), plus travel and meal expenses, and only takes three to four clients per day.<\/p>\n

Morimoto, a married man who studied physics for his postgraduate degree from Osaka University, offers a wide range of services. Some of the activities he has been rented for include sharing meals, catching butterflies, and accompanying a spouse filing for divorce.<\/p>\n

Morimoto emphasized, however, that he does not exert any effort aside from eating, drinking, and giving basic responses.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cI lend myself out to do nothing, which means I don\u2019t make any special effort,\u201d he told CBS News. \u201cI don\u2019t initiate conversation. I reply to chitchat, but that\u2019s it.\u201d \u201cPeople use me in different ways,\u201d Morimoto added. \u201cSome people are lonesome. Some feel it\u2019s a shame to go somewhere alone; they want someone to share their impressions with. What\u2019s amazing is the huge variety of personalities, circumstances, and situations. That\u2019s striking to me almost every day.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Despite receiving \u201cwords of gratitude\u201d from some of his clients, the \u201cDo Nothing Rent-a-Man\u201d does not want his services to \u201cbe seen as an act of charity\u201d or a form of support.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not a friend or an acquaintance. I\u2019m free of the bothersome things that accompany relationships-but can ease people\u2019s sense of loneliness. Maybe it\u2019s something like that for me,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Morimoto now has over 238,000 followers on Twitter and has had over 3,000 clients since he began his business in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Web Desk: A man who makes a living by renting himself out to do nothing has garnered an enormous following online and thousands of clients. For 10,000 yen plus expenses for travels and meals, anyone can rent Shoji Morimoto, 37, from Tokyo in Japan, but he will not do anything except \u201ceat, drink and give […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1357,3,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-featured","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23999,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23996\/revisions\/23999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}