The business idea of helping people cancel their contracts already existed when Shinji Tanimoto founded the Momuri cancellation agency in Tokyo two years ago under the umbrella of his operating company Albatross. Still, he would say his approach is relatively new to the Japanese labor market. “Until now, termination agencies have been rather discreet,” he says. It almost seemed to him as if they thought their own service was so reprehensible that they didn’t want to be caught doing it. And that made sense. Because in Japan nothing is more important than the well-being of the economy. Many people therefore see leaving a company prematurely for personal reasons as a violation of national work ethic.
Japan: When the professional takes over the termination – economy
