I’m Chinese and don’t speak Japanese. I’ve been living in Japan for the past four years because of work, and I really love life here.

It’s wonderful to hear that you’re enjoying life in Japan. As a Japanese person, that makes me happy to hear. When I first joined, I had Premium membership as a special perk. I’m on a lower tier now, but if it’s financially feasible, I still think Premium is the better option. The support is more thorough, and you can also use other apps like PATRO—although that was the case back then, so I’m not sure if it still applies. I feel that the Premium class is Universe Club’s main selling point. I’m just an ordinary, low-paid office worker, so I couldn’t continue because of the cost, but if you can afford it, I highly recommend it.

Instead of being stingy and settling for Premium membership, you should just buy Universe Club outright. As you know, Japanese women are still very popular in China. It’s a business that brings together beautiful young Japanese women and matches them with men. If you introduced them widely to Chinese men, I think it would become very popular. Prostitution is illegal in Japan, but businesses like Universe Club, which facilitates papa-katsu (compensated dating in Japan), are legal. Please introduce papa-katsu, a uniquely Japanese culture, to Chinese men and help increase the number of visitors to Japan. The person asking the question would make money, Japan’s economy would benefit, and we’d all be happy.

One advantage of using Universe Club is that the club provides information about the women. For the club, if men can’t trust them, they won’t pay the fee to make offers. Although the club’s ability to investigate—through interviews and assessing people—is limited, I feel they provide information that is as close to the truth as possible and useful for men’s activities. Of course, there are cases where women intentionally lie or fail to disclose important facts. However, on other platforms, the information is provided by the women themselves and may include lies or exaggerations. That’s why I feel the “lemon market paradox” applies there. By contrast, I don’t think the lemon market paradox applies to Universe Club.

Since you’ve lived in Japan for four years, most people would expect you to be able to speak at least some basic Japanese. If you can’t speak it at all, I think it would be better to study enough Japanese to manage basic conversations and use translation tools for the rest. You can rely entirely on translation, but I feel that often leads to the relationship lasting only once. To communicate properly, it would probably be better to learn at least enough Japanese for basic conversation. For the Japanese-Language Proficiency Test (JLPT), N3 means being able to understand Japanese used in everyday situations to some extent, so N3 or above (N1–N3) would be ideal. That said, I think you could probably manage with N4 at first. N5 might be a little difficult. As technology advances, perhaps translation devices will eventually become like something out of an anime—where you speak Chinese but the other person hears Japanese, and you hear their voice in your native language in real time. Maybe we’ll even have something like Doraemon’s translation konjac someday… Doraemon’s birthday is September 3, 2112, so perhaps devices like that will exist by then. But we’re not there yet, so it might be better to study some Japanese before coming.

I’m glad to hear that you like life and culture in Japan. When I was in college, I became friends with an exchange student from China. After graduating, I took a budget trip to China and spent about a month staying at my friend’s family home and relatives’ homes. It’s still a wonderful memory. I’m curious why things always end so quickly when you do papa-katsu (compensated dating in Japan) on other platforms. What do you think the reason is? Since you’re a foreigner, you may need to offer a slightly higher allowance than Japanese men do. I think Japanese women are probably the best in the world. I hope you can take the right steps and enjoy the experience.