{"id":1050999,"date":"2022-09-07T03:44:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T07:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1050999"},"modified":"2022-09-07T03:44:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T07:44:17","slug":"japanese-man-earns-a-living-by-doing-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1050999","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Man Earns A Living By Doing Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Digital-Art-Couple-Silhouettes-Relationship-300x150-1.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"Digital Art Couple Silhouettes Relationship\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A 38-year-old man from Tokyo named Shoji Morimoto has a job that most of us would be extremely envious of. He earns a living by doing nothing.<\/p>\n<p>The Tokyo-resident charges 10,000 yen per booking to accompany clients. According to a report by Reuters, Morimoto has gone to over 4,000 sessions in the last 4 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy job is to be wherever my clients want me to be and to do nothing in particular,\u201d Morimoto told Reuters. With over 250k followers on Twitter, Morimoto said that most of his clients contact him on the micro-blogging site only. Among them, one person has hired Morimoto around 270 times. However, Morimoto maintains some boundaries when it comes to choosing the job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople do not have to be useful in any specific way,\u201d Morimoto added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"schema-post-type-header \">\n<div class=\"title-header\">\n<h2> Japanese man finds dream job by getting paid for ?doing nothing? <\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"img-holder\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/japanese-man-dream-job-do-nothing-comp-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"meta-holder\">\n<p \/>\n<p>Shoji Morimoto, a former publishing company worker, rents himself out to simply be there for lonely folks, once even paid just to wave goodbye to one destitute traveler.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/09\/06\/japanese-man-shoji-morimoto-makes-a-living-doing-nothing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Continue reading on <span>New York Post<\/span> <\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"schema-post-type-header \">\n<div class=\"title-header\">\n<h2> I quit job after boss called me lazy, now I get paid ?60 an hour to do nothing <\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"img-holder\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/hour-accompany-clients-simply-exist-758369449.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"meta-holder\">\n<p \/>\n<p>A JAPANESE man may just have what some would see as the perfect job, he gets paid to do pretty much nothing. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/19726266\/japanese-man-gets-paid-do-absolutely-nothing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Continue reading on <span>The Sun<\/span> <\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: TG Daily &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/tgdaily.com\/news\/japanese-man-earns-a-living-by-doing-nothing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Japanese Man Earns A Living By Doing Nothing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 38-year-old man from Tokyo named Shoji Morimoto has a job that most of us would be extremely envious of. He earns a living by doing nothing. The Tokyo-resident charges 10,000 yen per booking to accompany clients. 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