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Couple-busters offer 50 ways to say sayonara to your lover
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Breaking up is hard to do, or so they used to say. Now, however, Japanese people who tire of a lover or spouse can always call in the professionals. For around £65 an hour, the wakaresase-ya - or couple-buster agencies - will seduce or blackmail a troublesome partner into divorce or separation. There are about a dozen such agencies listed on the internet, offering a discreet service said to appeal to wealthy Japanese keen to avoid initiating a messy split. Their adverts are not subtle: “Does you husband mistreat you?", “Have you ever worried that your wife is sleeping with another man?” But the service is sophisticated. Office Shadow in Tokyo boasts it can arrange a sting, using up to a dozen operatives, that leaves the victim unaware of having been tricked into divorce or separation. Using information supplied by a client about a target’s tastes and habits, they will arrange a “chance” meeting with a fantasy seducer. Their operatives are chosen for their looks and smooth conversation: the women play air hostesses or bored housewives; the men appear as businessmen or film directors. More : guardian.co.uk |
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