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Shoji Morimoto, a 38-year-old Japanese man known as “Rental-Do-Nothing-Man” has found a dream job by getting paid for “doing nothing”. He offers an unusual service to others in Tokyo. He charges 10,000 yen or $71 per booking to simply work as a companion(同伴). He also charges for transportation(交通), and if the “work” falls between mealtimes, people will also pay for his food. Really, he rents himself out to lonely people just so they won’t be alone.

“I rent myself out. My job is to be wherever people want me to be and to do nothing,” he said. He had handled(处理) some 4,000 orders in the past four years since starting his “firm(公司)” on a Twitter page to give his service.

He used to work for a big firm and he found himself doing “nothing” at the job. So he started this firm. “I started wondering what would happen if I provided my ability to ‘do nothing’ as a service to others. People tend to think that my ‘doing nothing’ is valuable because it is useful to other people,” he said. “But it’s fine to really not do anything. People do not have to be useful in any specific way.”

This service is now Morimoto’s only way to get money. In a day, he sees about one or two people. Before COVID-19, it was three or four a day.

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