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Re:The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business by mikekchar on Thursday November 09, 2017 @07:37AM (#15661866)
I've lived in Japan for nearly a decade and never heard of anything like it. However it seems legit: domain name was registered in 2012 with a Japanese registrar and was renewed in 2015. The company (from their website) claims to have operated since 2010.

It's worth noting that most Japanese people would find this a pretty weird thing, I think -- it's not normal. I can't imagine that it would actually work out well if you got found out.

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Re:The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business by mirnoc on Thursday November 09, 2017 @04:16PM (#15665934)
It's fairly common to rent people for commercial purposes; the term is サクラ (i.e. a shill, basically). While I don't hear about renting people to imitate personal relationships, I wouldn't be surprised if it was more commonplace than it appears.
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