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Rental Person Who Does Nothing

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Rental Person Who Does Nothing

By: Shoji Morimoto, Don Knotting - translator
Narrated by: Kevin Shen
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Need a rental person who does nothing?

Shoji Morimoto provides a fascinating service to the lonely and socially anxious. After an old boss told him that he contributed nothing and that it made no difference whether he showed up to work or not, he wondered if a person who ‘does nothing’ could still have a place in the world. With a tweet, his Rental Person service was born.

- Have a deep secret you desperately need to reveal, so deep that you can’t tell a friend or family member?
- Have you spent a long time home alone, and want to know what it’s like to have somebody with you at your apartment?
- Or for someone to simply think of you on a stressful day? Or wave to you as you leave the train station on a long journey?

Morimoto is dependable, non-judgmental and committed to remaining a stranger throughout each request, and his encounters are revelatory about both Japanese society and human psychology.

In Rental Person Who Does Nothing, Morimoto chronicles his extraordinary experiences in his unique line of work and reflects on how we consider relationships, jobs and family in our search for meaningful connection and purpose in life.

©2023 Shoji Morimoto and Don Knotting (P)2023 Macmillan Publishers International Limited Anthropology Philosophy Society
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interesting strange book

would not be nice if Everyone -not just me- should be allow to be living the lifes they want...
in a world that tell us our only worth is what we produce this is a needed book

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