I’m a female member. If I start participating through the club, my parents will probably notice at least a little because of the clothes I wear on dates, the gifts I receive, and the fact that I seem to have more money than before. Is it okay to be honest and tell them I’m doing papa-katsu (compensated dating in Japan)? Or would it be better to give them another reason, such as saying I started working a night job with relatively good earnings, like at a girls’ bar?

Maezawa from the CEO’s Office here. > My parents will probably notice. Is it okay to be honest and tell them I’m doing papa-katsu (compensated dating in Japan)? I think it depends on what your relationship with your parents is like. If you’ve built up enough trust that you can safely tell them you’re doing papa-katsu, then it might be fine. But if their own child told them she was doing papa-katsu, I imagine most parents wouldn’t be very happy about it. A lot of parents would probably also worry if their daughter worked in nightlife jobs with relatively high earnings, such as a girls’ bar. I can’t think of any particularly good way to explain it, but if your parents ask, you could simply say that you got it from the person you’re currently dating—that he seems to be wealthy, though you’re not entirely sure. That might be enough.