Rent-a-scary person company appears in Japan, seems an awful lot like a straight-up gang

Rent-a-scary person company appears in Japan, seems an awful lot like a straight-up gang

If you’re paying people to intimidate others into doing what you want them to do, doesn’t that make you a mobster? One of the quirkiest corners of the Japanese economy is the rent-a-person industry. No, we’re not talking about prostitution, or even the compensated companionship of host/hostess bars. In Japan, there are agencies from whom you can hire a grandma, a middle-aged man, or pretend siblings. As any industry matures, new companies will s…