Professional seducers in Japan
Lesley Downer, an author known for her books about geisha, has an article in the Telegraph today about Japanese companies that specialize in making divorces easier by setting adultery traps for spouses:
In Japan, if you have the money you can sort out virtually any problem in your love life. If you want to get rid of an unwanted spouse, retrieve a straying one, get back with an ex or even get together with someone you’ve seen but don’t yet know, there are companies that will help you, using all the technology and expertise in human psychology at their disposal. Not so long ago Japanese wives put up with any amount of infidelity and abuse. A divorced woman was shunned and unlikely to marry again. But these days “people want to be happy”, says Tomiya. The result has been an enormous increase in divorces and in companies such as GNC.
Tomiya founded GNC 16 years ago. It has branches across Japan. His staff perform all sorts of services, from trailing a straying spouse or looking into the background of a marriage or job candidate, to dealing with stalkers, domestic violence, sexual harassment, even hackers. But his main job is sorting relationship problems. In the past year alone he has dealt with 2,000 cases.
Jobs such as separating Mr A from his wife take an average of two to four months. For this the client pays £2,500 a month, plus expenses.
Read the details in the full article.
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I wonder what the 2channellers are going to think about this sort of story being in the gaijin press?
Probably not much if this is factually accurate.
I guess gaijin writers on nihonjinron will jump to this sort of story.
Why is that?
What do you think the most reasoble reason for it is?
Well I ask because I don’t know. But if I had to guess, it would be blind dogmatism and/or conspiracy paranoia.
Thanks.
I have an impression that English media and writers tend to pick up small marginalized/bizarre segments of Japan/Japanese based on their prejudice and present it as if they represent nihon/nihonjin, forming skewed views of nihon/nihonjin.
That is what i meant to say in the previous comment.
It’s whatever sells papers, that why adults in the UK think all teenagers run around knifing each other
GNC Global Network Corporation (in Japanese)
http://www.gnc.co.jp/
The president of GNC is Ms. Toumiya Megumi, though the real owner of the company seems Mr. Toumiya Makoto. The headquarter of the company is in Tochigi, rather than in Tokyo. Very strange company to say the least.
After reading the whole article, I feel really sorry for the woman’s boyfriend, he thinks she’s a secretary and she sleeps with all her client’s. what a slut.
to add more, it’s pretty screwed up that they break up existing relationships that the target has in order to suit the client too.
The original article says: “Mr A, who has been married for 20 years and has a son of 19 at university, is prone to violence and beats his wife. ”
Sad that she has to turn to a service like this to dump this putz. Isnt physical abuse enough to trigger a reasonable outcome via Japan divorce laws? Or is it so heavily weighted towards the man? I had heard that the divorce laws were revised recently to be more reasonable (financially) towards women…anyone know more?
http://www.rikon.to/contents1-6.htm
No sure, why the english media here often covers articles like the above about 2yrs after they were major news on Japanese TV.
Not at all hard to believe.