What is the impression that a foreigner experienced "rental family service"?

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"I want relatives of a few in wedding ceremonies etc." "I want to confront the loneliness that no one is in the house", etc. Respond to the desires of people seeking "families" in various circumstancesRental family"Is a service originated in Japan. I do not seem to have opportunities to meet in overseas so much,Eriff BatmanWhen Mr. visited Japan, he actually experienced the service. The New Yorker also listened to stories about the founder and users of the service.

Japan's Rent-a-Family Industry | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/japans-rent-a-family-industry

· Mr. Nishida who rents his wife and daughter
One of the service users who Mr. Batu Mun talked to is a male in his 60s living in Tokyo called Mr. Nishida. A fight caused the daughter to leave the house, and six months later his wife died and became alone.

Mr. Nishida worked in the sales department of the manufacturer even in his sixties and had friends with drinking associations and golfing etc, but when he was at home he rented his wife and daughter because he could not wipe out loneliness I heard that he decided.

The first opportunity was a 3 hour dinner, the cost was 43,000 yen. The rental wife who came under Mr. Nishida said "Really ordinary woman", rental daughter "was more fashionable than genuine". When Mr. Nishida told his wife's hairstyle and daughter's gesture, the two acted according to that information, and the dinner party was held smoothly.

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Mr. Nishida continued to use the service after that. Sometimes I handed the key to two people, and when I came back, there was sometimes they asked me to "leave home." Three people gradually broke up, Mr. Nishida said he leaked the real daughter as a porridge.

Then, the rental girl tells Mr. Nishida that "your daughter thinks you can not contact himself, waiting for contact to come." According to this advice, Nishida who took in contact with his daughter said that he wants to fit his daughter now, but Bateman who heard this story said, "Because it is the position of a rental girl, you can ask I wrote that I was eerily thinking "What kind of thought did the rental girl tell me about the story and how the real daughter was feeling?"

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· Reiko renting father for her daughter
Reiko, a dental hygienist, is raising her daughter Mana as a single mother. But nine years ago, when Mr. Mana was 10 years old, he began to rent his father because he was bullied because of his absence of his father and failed to go to school.

Reiko married a man named "Inaba" at the age of 21, but as soon as Mana was born, he got divorced. Reiko asked the rental father under the condition of "ideal father" and selected a man who I thought was the best from the four candidates and had my father play for ten years.

When I visited the house for the first time, the rental father of "Inaba" called "I'm sorry I could not come to see you," but Mr. Mana did not try to match her face. However, as there was a poster of "Arashi" in Mana's room, the rental father said "Let's watch the storm images on YouTube together because there is time after lunch" He said that.

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The frequency with which "Inaba" comes is twice a month, about 4 hours to 8 hours each, with the cost of 20,000 yen to 40,000 yen a month, Reiko sparingly pays out. Mr. Mana says that "Why is Innaba going home at night," Reiko says that he has a new family.

Mr. Reiko who told Mana to be an ordinary girl since "Inaba" came to come. When Bachuman asked, "Are you planning to confide the truth to mana someday?", Reiko answered "I can not say it to mana absolutely", "Sometimes I wish I and Mr. Inaba can marry" There seems to be something I think. "

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· Bateman's experience
Mr. Bateman also used "rental mother" to experience what the rental family is like. Because it is unnatural to put an interpreter between mothers and it is unnatural, a person who can speak English was chosen for casting. A rental mother who met with Mr. Bati Mu at a cafe in a department store is a small middle-aged woman who is a small middle-aged woman who plays a role with the setting "Mr. Battie Man moved to Japan due to various circumstances at a young age, for the first time in a while" Two people decided.

Based on this setting, Mr. Bachyuman who was told from rental mother, "It has been a long time since we last met you at the end ... ... It was truly long," his feelings fluctuate in that soft tone I felt that. I misunderstood "Mother" who regretted not being able to stay with my daughter.

After a series of role playing, Mr. Bateman also listens to rental mother. I was in charge of rental mother "Ili", I was a returnee who returned to Japan at age 14 when I was a child in the US and Canada for my child's circumstances. However, he seems to have been teased with English naive Japanese, never talked in public before perfect Japanese can be spoken. After that, Airi who got a job in a major company retired two years ago and started working for rental family service. However, he said, "I can not continue this work forever," Mr. Bateman says he felt badly guilty.

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· Mr. Yuichi Ishii deploying rental family service
Ari's work rental family service "Family Romance"Yuichi Ishii founded. Mr. Ishii's goal is to say "a society that nobody needs services like us".

Mr. Ishii is working as a model / actor before the foundation of "Family Romance", and he also seems to have worked as a caregiver at the elderly home. In 2006, "Mosquito CorpsRegister as a rental family service called 'Family Romance' independently in 2009. More than 100 employees, including free actors, belong to Mr. Ishii himself, and he has played a total of over 100 "husbands". "Inaba" which Reiko had previously rented is what Mr. Ishii plays.

Mr. Ishii played 10 "husbands" in parallel at the beginning of the founding, but feeling that "I always feel that another human life is on my shoulders" He said he was paying attention not to play more than one family member.

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According to Mr. Ishii, it is a common situation that rental family service "clients depend on cast". In the case of "rental husband", finally, 3 to 40% of clients who use it continuously seem to be seeking a rental husband. If dependency is seen in this way, we will gradually reduce the number of meetings, but if it does not work then we will force to terminate the contract.

Plays a number of "husband", see also the fiance of the parents of all persons to kiss the bride, to apologize for the affair, Mr. Ishii, which witnessed the birth is "not a real family, even in the rental family based on the contract, It can be a form of family. " On the other hand, "Ideal romance of women is a very burdensome for men and nearly impossible in the real world," he said.

byJustin Schuck

Regarding reasons why "rental families" that are not often seen abroad are spreading in Japan, Mr. Bateman has values ​​that originally placed emphasis on the continuation of "home" in Japan, It is pointed out that there was a way of thinking that welcomes a son-in-law who does not have a connection and will continue the house.

Mr. Bateman experienced the service himself and said, "Family love is said to be" love that can not be bought by money ", but rather than being forced to work free of charge only by being a family member," Buddhist received a legitimate reward It is better to give love as a family member better ".