Q1. When asking women about their relationship type, are the questions and wording standardized down to the exact phrasing among staff at each branch?

I’m Mamiya, Senior Manager at EastCustomerloyaltyGroup, and I’ll answer your question. Of course, the way we explain the relationship types differs depending on whether we’re speaking to female or male members! Though maybe I’m the only one who does this… When interviewing a woman who has chosen Relationship Type B, I might tell her: “Even if you tell a man that things will start with dinner, some of them may still try to persuade you.” On the other hand, I might tell the man: “Since she’s Type B, please let her go home after dinner only. You can go to a bar afterward if you’d like, but if you get overly touchy, it won’t lead to a second meeting.” This approach is meant to avoid complaints. There are also many men who are so gentlemanly that they always receive excellent reviews, but things never progress to a second meeting. With those men, I feel like saying, “Even if she’s Type B, go ahead and make a move!” This may not exactly answer your question, but basically, everyone uses the same wording according to the manual.

This is Maezawa from the Corporate Planning Office. > Q1. When asking women about their relationship type, are the questions and phrasing standardized among staff at each branch, down to the exact wording? The exact wording isn’t standardized. In fact, even when staff are approaching the question from the same perspective, I think the wording itself varies from person to person. > Q2. Could you tell us what kinds of questions you ask, or how you phrase them, to find out from the women? There are many variations—if there are 100 staff members, there are 100 different approaches. So there wouldn’t really be any point in writing them all out. Besides, even if you knew, I feel it would only give people material to nitpick. (笑) > The relationship types that we male members understand and— You shouldn’t think of them solely from a man’s perspective. The relationship types envisioned by the club and those understood by men may not always be the same. So even when men and women have different understandings, it may actually be the man who has it wrong. To begin with, inviting a woman classified as Type A or B into an adult relationship (intimate) on the very first day suggests to me that the man doesn’t really understand the relationship types.