Who disguises themselves as moving companies in Japan (5 photos)

Want to disguise your company – pretend to be a moving company. It's amazing how many different services a company with the slogan "we'll come with our own boxes" can provide.





We'll make you fake documents

I've already written about the phenomenon of johatsu – when a Japanese person runs away from his previous place of residence one night. That is, he starts a new life somewhere without old sins and obligations.



Most often, men run away because women can't "get all tied up and leave"

Some with all their belongings, some without - light. And even those who run away without belongings can still call a moving company, because he's not going to carry things, like you're little kids. He needs new documents and a name, the quality of the forgery is determined by the amount the runaway is willing to pay.

And even if the movers don't give you new documents themselves, they always know a couple of places where you can buy them.

Women's League

Another new, but already very popular cover for a company for moving - women's rights organizations.





For some reason, domestic violence has become a problem in Japan (or is being reported more often)

These are organizations that plan the escape of a woman from a family where she is subjected to violence, together with her.

The Night Escape House company has already helped 2,500 women escape. Their trick is that other moving companies are as silent as fish when the police ask them about those moving.

But this type of company, on the contrary, first goes to the police before the move, so that they don’t look for the missing person, and that she wanted to disappear herself.



I love this logo, it warms my heart

And they don’t specifically brand their trucks, but hire new ones once a month, so as not to become familiar. They should be as untraceable as possible for an ordinary person, but do everything legally.

By the way, there is a strange surge in domestic violence in Japan now. The latest social media the survey found that 18% of respondents admitted to being abused by their partner. I don't know what our figures are, but the Japanese say that this is a record level for their country.

A little about moving in Japan

By the way, moving in Japan itself is a very expensive thing. Moving in the Tokyo metropolitan area costs from 50,000 to 200,000 yen. But the Japanese have a passion for packing everything in separate boxes, hence the mass of trucks and the lack of space in the back.



A Japanese box for transporting clothes, not in a suitcase. How to spend 10 thousand yen for nothing

In general, Japanese moving as a real service for moving is a rather expensive and stupid thing. But forging documents, running away from a husband, they are at their best.