Maezawa from the president’s office here—I’ll answer this one too.
Thank you for your question.
As I understand it, the reason they don’t tell women their class is that women may ask to be placed in a certain class, while men may complain, “Why is this woman in that class? The setting fee is too high.”
Apparently, dealing with those issues alone would interfere with their regular work.
So men who tell women their class should understand that they’re violating the rules.
I doubt that alone would be enough for forced removal, but I do think they could introduce fines. Then again, it would be difficult to establish a basis for charging fines.
Instead, they could impose penalties such as doubling the setting fee from the next time onward, depending on the nature of the violation.
For men who think it’s fine as long as they don’t get caught, they could even offer women a ¥50,000 reward for reporting it with proof. That might discourage men from sharing the information.
Anyway, I’ve gotten off track.
Basically, they don’t answer questions about class rankings, so it would probably be difficult to directly ask to be moved to a lower class.
However, you might be able to phrase it more indirectly, something like:
“I’m having trouble because I’m not receiving any offers. I feel like I might get more offers if I were in a lower class. I’d really like to receive some offers—what should I do?”
They won’t tell you directly, but they might quietly lower your class.
