There are many approaches to having a girlfriend, but a Japanese billionaire has taken an unusual route after he launched an online wanted advert for a girlfriend who will fly around the Moon with him on a SpaceX rocket.
Yusaku Maezawa, who recently announced his break-up with a Japanese actress, is accepting applications from “single women aged 20 or over” who want to enjoy life to the fullest.
The matchmaking exercise is being turned into a TV show for a web streaming service.
Speaking, the billionaire father of three said, “I have lived exactly as I’ve wanted to until now,” said Maezawa.
“I’m 44 now. As feelings of loneliness and emptiness slowly begin to surge upon me, there’s one thing that I think about: Continuing to love one woman,” he said in the advert.
Maezawa has also made a pitch on his Twitter account, saying: “Why not be the ‘first woman’ to travel to the moon?”
The deadline to apply is January 17, 2020. He will make a final selection by the end of March after going on dates with the applicants.
Maezawa is scheduled to make a lunar trip in 2023 or later as the first private passenger on a voyage by entrepreneur Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
Maezawa also plans to take about half a dozen artists with him on the trip, which will take them around the Moon without landing on it.
