Shoji Morimoto has what some would see as a dream job: He gets paid to do pretty much nothing.
The 38-year-old Tokyo resident charges ¥10,000 ($71) per booking to accompany clients and simply exist as 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 had handled some 4,000 sessions in the past four years.