“Posted haiku and paintings in the newspaper” “Summering Commercial Law” solicited business suspension December 13 17:48

If you pay the publication fee, you will be persistently solicited over the phone that you can publish your haiku and paintings in the newspaper, etc. Ordered to suspend telephone solicitation for three months.

The order was received from the public relations hall in Minato-ku, Tokyo.

According to the Consumer Affairs Agency, if the company pays a publication fee of 240,000 yen to people who are active in coterie magazines, etc., it will solicit by phone that "you can publish your own haiku and paintings in newspapers" Even if he refused, he made many solicitation calls, and even if he applied for cancellation during the period when the cooling off was possible, he was not responding as "cannot be canceled because it has already been posted".

The Consumer Affairs Agency prohibits companies from suspending solicitation by telephone and starting similar operations for managers for three months from the 13th on the assumption that such actions violate the Specified Commercial Transaction Law. I gave an order.

It is said that about 200 consultations about this company have been sent to consumer life centers nationwide since 2017, mainly for elderly people.

Toshi Yoshino, General Manager of Consumer Affairs of the Consumer Affairs Agency, says, “It ’s a“ commercial commerce method ”that praises the work as“ a wonderful work ”and puts it into a happy feeling.