If you’re paying people to intimidate others into doing what you want them to do, doesn’t that make you a mobster?
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Rent-a-scary person company appears in Japan, seems an awful lot like a straight-up gang
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Casey Baseel
Sep 2, 2025 - Tweet
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You can now rent “fat people” in Japan
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Casey Baseel
Jun 12, 2021
We rent a sister in Japan, act out sibling scenarios with frightening realness 【Video】
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Oona McGee
Dec 9, 2020
Big sisters can be scary and make you do things you don’t want to do…even when you rent them.
- Japan
- (family • Family Romance • rent a person • rental sister • Seiji Nakazawa • siblings • sister • SNJO)
Japanese company offers a “little sister rental” service, and our reporter just tried it out
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Casey Baseel
Mar 28, 2017
After spending every day working with the ruffians of RocketNews24, our reporter Meg could use some gentlemanly company.
- Japan
- (butlers • Handsome men • Meg • rent a person • rental butler)
Renting a hot guy to make you cry and dry your tears? We try Tokyo’s newest cathartic service
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Casey Baseel
Nov 28, 2015
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Casey Baseel
Nov 25, 2015
Ikebukuro-based company provides a shoulder to cry on and arms to sleep in by dispatching hot guys to spend the night at lonely women’s homes.
Japan is already well-known for being the place where you can rent a human being for pretty much any occasion. There’s rentable boyfriends, girlfriends, and even middle-aged dudes to dispense relationship advice.
So the latest type of rentable person should come as no surprise: hot guys to cry with you and wipe away your tears. Ladies, are you ready for a stress-relieving cry and a good-looking dude with immaculate hands to dab your eyes with a cloth? Well then get ready for Ikemeso.
- Japan
- (crying • hot guys • ikemen • only in Japan • rent a person)
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