Wakaresaseya: private agents hired to end relationships
Ironically this industry seems to only have come under scrutiny <i>because</i> the hired gun wasn't professional enough and/or took his job far too seriously, depending on your perspective.<p><i>In 2010, Takeshi Kuwabara was sentenced for the murder of his lover, Rie Isohata. What captured the world’s imagination was not the tragedy itself, but the fact that Kuwabara was a wakaresaseya – a professional hired by Isohata’s husband to break up their marriage.</i><p><i>Once Isohata learned of the deception, she angrily attempted to break off the relationship with Kuwabara. Unwilling to let her go, he strangled her with a piece of string. The following year, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison.</i><p>There is definitely a dark rom-com movie script to be made from this story.<p>Edit: I just remembered, there is an old Italian film which has a similar plot. It's called <i>Divorce, Italian Style</i> and is about a man who wants to divorce his wife, but can't due to the local laws. He spends the movie trying to get his wife to take a lover, so that he can shoot her "in a rage of jealousy" and get a reduced sentence for manslaughter. It's pretty funny, I highly recommend it.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divorce_Italian_Style" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divorce_Italian_Style</a>