I currently live overseas and return to Japan for about two weeks once a year. I’m considering joining during my next visit, but do you think it would be a waste to join if I could only meet someone once or twice a year?

Maezawa from the CEO’s office here as well. Thank you for your question. If you tell a woman, “Let’s meet a year from now,” I think the typical Japanese woman would answer, “I’d love to,” even while thinking that nobody knows what things will be like a year from now. Also, your way of thinking is too rigid. Assuming you’re covering her travel expenses, you can invite her overseas and meet her every month. Of course, when you make her an offer while she’s in Japan, you need to choose someone who meets the condition of being able to travel overseas every month. Then, after the third meeting with a woman you like, you can invite her abroad. It may be difficult because you’ll have to cover her travel expenses plus her allowance—for example, five days would mean paying five times the usual allowance or more—but if you have plenty of money to spare, I don’t think it would be a problem.

I’m Marika. From a man’s perspective, I think the advantage is that he can almost certainly meet a woman he likes on the day he wants to see her. Even a year from now, most women should be able to find a day that works if they have a two-week window. And even if she says she can’t meet because she’s stopped responding or quit papa-katsu (compensated dating in Japan), there are probably still some women he could meet by making offers to several of them when he first returns. He could also renew for the following year and make new offers. If it weren’t for COVID, I’d be thrilled if a papa (a male supporter) invited me overseas. Even within Japan, going on a date somewhere other than my hometown gets me excited, so I’d love to travel abroad even more.