The number of rent-a-friend agencies in Japan has doubled to about 10 in the past eight years. The best known, Office Agent, has 1,000 people on its books. The rise of the phony friend is a symptom of social and economic changes, combined with a deep-seated cultural aversion to giving personal and professional problems a public airing.
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Lonely Japanese find solace in ‘rent a friend’ agencies | World news | The Guardian (via indefensible)
This is both fascinating in an ‘I want to be a rent-a-friend because it sounds like fun’ kind of way, and sad in a ‘wow, these people have to rent their friends?’ kind of way…
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