I’d like to ask about a papa who suggested that we use the Zenly app together. He takes very good care of me, and we’re quite close. He lets me live in a different floor of the same apartment building, and we see each other almost every day. We’re very close, but it seems he also wants to keep track of what I’m doing when we’re apart.

I’m Maezawa from the CEO’s office, and I’ll answer this one too. Thanks for your question. Zenly was popular among young people about two years ago, but hasn’t it already gone out of fashion? I think that papa only found out about it recently and wants to use it because he thinks it would be convenient for keeping tabs on women. There doesn’t seem to be any particular benefit for both sides—it’s really only useful when a man wants to monitor a woman. That said, women know how to work around it too. Even if they have Zenly installed, they can make the GPS glitch at a restaurant, then restore it after returning there at the end. That way, it looks as though they stayed at the restaurant the whole time. It’s a hassle, but there are ways to deal with it. On the other hand, if the questioner wanted to harass a man, they could learn his patterns while Zenly was active and then show up in front of him even after ending things. They could go to his home pretending to solicit newspaper subscriptions and see his wife, become friendly with his children, or wait for him at one of his business partners’ offices. They could do pretty much anything. So in that sense, it seems women could benefit from it too. When ending things, they could say, “Please give me about two million yen as a breakup payment”—though if you phrase it the wrong way, it could be considered a crime, so you’d have to make it sound more like you simply have that kind of wish—and then show up here and there without actually doing anything, since taking action could potentially be illegal. Men would seem to be taking a considerable risk, yet do they really not think about these things? I can’t help wondering whether the man involved is going to be okay.

I’m Kazu, a male member. If you’re still living within a middle or high schooler’s limited range and have a rose-tinted outlook, you might not mind sharing your location, but once you’re over 18, I don’t think that’s appropriate. It probably won’t catch on（笑） You may just have to accept that satisfying that man’s desires is the price of living a luxurious lifestyle.