Inside Japan’s Latest Craze: Boyfriends for Hire

Vice always creates the most amazing documentaries. We’d hope one day that Amped Asia gets to make documentaries that interesting. In the meantime, we want to highlight a Vice documentary about a topic that is trending a lot recently.

Recently everyone’s been talking about hosts in Japan and the tons of money they make. Women in Japan want to date handsome men and have their ego stroked, and these men are here to provide. Vice brought in one of their journalists, a fairly awkward looking white boy, and got him to become a host.

The documentary is below.

Written by Editorial Staff