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This Weird Year in Asia: monkey sex, toilet water beer, a ‘bachelor’s handbag’
- What do monkey sex, flavoured condoms, and a ‘bachelor’s handbag’ have in common? All made our list for strangest Asia stories of 2022
- If those stories whet your appetite, we also have a tale about ‘toilet water’ beer that will quench your thirst for oddball stories from the past 12 months
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As we prepare to flip the calendar on 2022 signalling an end to another year (of Covid), here at This Week in Asia we would like to look back on some of the more peculiar stories from the last 12 months.
We will start at nothing, or one Japanese man’s mission to accomplish nothing.
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Japanese man rents himself out offering ‘nothing in particular’
Japanese man rents himself out offering ‘nothing in particular’
Doing nothing
Japan’s Shoji Morimoto gets paid to do pretty much nothing.
The 38-year-old Tokyo resident charges 10,000 yen (US$71) an hour to accompany clients and simply be a companion.
“Basically, I rent myself out. My job is to be wherever my clients want me to be and to do nothing in particular,” Morimoto said, adding that he handled some 4,000 sessions the past four years.
His job has taken him to a park with a person who wanted to play on a see-saw. He has also beamed and waved through a train window at a complete stranger who wanted a send-off, and has sometimes just sat and listened.
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