Japanese man earns Rs 5,000 an hour to hang out with his clients

Shoji Morimoto has, in all probability, the best job in the world. The 38-year-old gets paid to accompany people to places and do nothing. Literally nothing else.

Morimoto - a resident of Tokyo - charges 10,000 yen (about Rs 5,600) per hour to hang out with his clients.

"Basically, I rent myself out. My job is to be wherever my clients want me to be and to do nothing in particular," Morimoto told Reuters.


In the last four years, Morimoto has had over 4,000 sessions, with many repeat customers, including one who hired him 270 times.

What does Morimoto do, but? Well, sometimes he goes to a park to play on a see-saw with a client, and sometimes he goes to the train station to give a stranger a send-off.

However, Morimoto also has his boundaries; he doesn't take requests that are sexual in nature and he has turned down an offer to go to Cambodia.

The companionship business is now Morimoto's sole source of income, with which he supports his wife and child. Although he declined to disclose how much he makes, he said he sees about one or two clients a day. Before the pandemic, it was three or four a day.

With inputs from Reuters