Maezawa from the President’s Office will answer this as well.
> “The club can’t get involved in allowance matters, so asking for advice would be illegal! Besides, if you consult them, they’ll think you’re a problematic female member and lower your rating,” the man told me forcefully.
We can’t get involved in free relationships, but even so, the club will get involved as much as possible.
In this case, if you report what happened, other women will probably submit similar reports as well. Then, no matter how this man tries to make excuses, we’ll be able to determine that he’s lying.
That would make him unsuitable for the club, and we could forcibly terminate his membership.
Of course, when you make the first report, you may not receive the response you were hoping for from the club. Even so, it will be a meaningful report. Reports from multiple women can turn the man’s lies into the truth being revealed.
Rather than thinking that you should just put up with it yourself, please report anything you feel is strange so that other women won’t have to go through the same unpleasant experience.
Also, consulting the club will not lower your rating. However, if you speak to the staff in anger and demand that the man be expelled, they may misunderstand the situation and treat you as a difficult customer.
(In that case, it would be due to the staff’s lack of ability.)
So I think it would be best to stick to reporting only the facts—for example, simply saying, “This is what happened.”
> ② We’re also available for consultation after the second date.
I thought we had been communicating this, but because we have many interviews and need to conduct them one after another, it’s possible that in many cases we didn’t explain it clearly enough.
Basically, to encourage women to protect themselves, we emphasized the following explanation:
“We can’t get involved in free relationships, so please make sure the two of you discuss the terms of the arrangement and agree on them before developing the relationship further.”
Perhaps the fact that we were available for consultation didn’t come across clearly enough.
> ① Please consult us about anything related to the allowance, even minor matters.
For example, we receive a fair number of inquiries saying, “The allowance amount was too low.”
If we tell people point①, I feel that it may be misunderstood and lead to an increase in these kinds of inquiries.
The allowance amount is something the two of you must discuss and decide, so even if you consult us, there may be nothing we can do.
(That said, thanks to these consultations, we can learn things like, “Oh, this man only pays small amounts,” which is useful information（笑）.)
If you weren’t paid your allowance, a man who tells you not to report it to the club, as in this case, is acting maliciously, so we can discuss the situation with a view to forcibly terminating his membership. However, we can’t intervene simply because the allowance was small.
That said, reports like, “This man only paid me ¥X, which was a small amount,” can be taken into consideration when introducing him to women in the future, so personally, I appreciate receiving them.
However, different staff members may interpret this differently. Some might think, “What do you mean? We told them to discuss it between themselves.”
So if you do report something, I think it would be better to leave out subjective comments such as “the amount was too small.”
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> At the time, the man strongly told me, “The club can’t get involved in allowance matters, so asking for advice would be illegal! Besides, they’ll think you’re a problematic female member and lower your rating.” I believed him completely.
What a nasty guy—talking as if he had nothing to do with it.
He really was a blacklisted man. LOL
I hope you’ve since met a wonderful man and are enjoying a happy relationship.
