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Win your lover back


Lovers at a café in Tokyo.

 by Justin McCurry    that he or she is unsuitable,” says
  Okawa, a 40-year-old former office
1    Japan is in the midst of a boom in worker whose divorce – and
 services that promise to reunite infatuation with James Bond films –
 couples months, and sometimes years, prompted her career change. “Before
 after they have gone their separate long the target knows all about his new
 ways. Ladies Secret Service is a private lover's debt problems, her sordid past,
 detective agency in Tokyo’s upmarket or the fact that she has a young child
 Ginza district. About 70% of its clients she failed to mention.”
 are women, aged between 20 and 40. It5    Typically, fukuenya agents are
 has successfully rekindled romances on presentable and sociable, but insiders
 behalf of hundreds of men and women say the most successful have a quick
 who are prepared to spend huge sums, mind as well as good looks. “Looks
 of up to 700,000 yen (£3,300) a alone aren’t usually enough to bring in
 month, on their quest to win back the results you get paid to produce,”
 former lovers. said Satoyo Nakamura, who reunites
2    The agency’s president, Yoshiko couples for another company, the
 Okawa, employs about 300 men and Japan Research Information Centre.
 women who are selected for their “It’s a job that requires being able to
 ability to befriend their targets and assume the role of a counsellor who
 convince them that breaking up with can bring about radical changes in
 an ex-lover or divorcing their spouse thinking, not just in the target, but also
 was the biggest mistake of their lives. in the client. It’s an extremely difficult
 Her team of fukuenya – “those who job.”
 restore bonds” – use hi-tech6    Fukuenya carry out their
 surveillance, counselling and outright operations in utmost secrecy. Even
 deception to achieve the most unlikely when attempts at reconciliation are
 reconciliations. successful, the targets must never learn
3    “After they have won the target’s how they came about, says Okawa, who
 trust, they might mention our client in routinely refuses media requests to
 passing and feign amazement when interview clients or agents. In one
 they realise they have a mutual typical case an agent tried to convince
 acquaintance,” Okawa said. “All the a bar hostess to go back to her ex-
 while our agents are learning as much husband. Over five months he
 about their new friend as possible and frequented the woman’s club
 are devising a plan to reunite him or pretending to be a wealthy
 her with our client. The trigger for businessman, accompanied by a friend
 reconciliation could be a ‘chance’ posing as a fortune teller. He spoke
 meeting in the street or a location that about how his friend’s psychic insights
 evokes happy memories of their time had helped him become rich, and
 together,” she added. “We relay any before long the hostess agreed to have
 complaints the target has to our client, her fortune read. The sooth-sayer’s
 so they can decide whether to make the advice was, [id:58791] , to return to her ex-
 necessary changes to repair their husband. They reunited and eventually
 relationship. It could be a divorcee remarried.
 who wants to get back with her ex-7    Okawa puts her success rate at
 husband, but who needs to change her around 50%, and believes that, in time,
 appearance or keep the house tidier more lovelorn people will seek her
 before there is any chance of that help. “When the economy is in real
 happening.” trouble, people are defeatist and tend
4    When the obstacle to a possible to give up on relationships too easily,
 reconciliation is a third person, the even if money wasn’t the actual cause
 agents face the task of engineering the of the break-up,” she said. “If they
 end of one relationship before they can have more money in their pockets they
 repair the other. “We do an incredible are naturally more optimistic, even
 amount of research into the new man about winning back old flames.”
 or woman in our target’s life, and then, 
 if we actually find anything, drop hints The Guardian, 2008