Twenty is an important birthday. It's the year you leave your teens, the year you start to feel a bit more like a real adult. For Japanese 20-year-old Yuma Hasegawa, it was also the day his parents politely quit their parental obligations.
Hasegawa opened an ornate envelope from mom and dad during his birthday celebration, assuming it was a gift. And it was -- just not the kind he was expecting.
Inside was a "Notice of Expiration of Child-Rearing Services."
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The document explains that since Hasegawa is now 20 -- the legal age of adulthood in Japan -- he will now have to become a "proper and responsible member of society." This requires, among other obligations, paying his parents rent to live in their home.
It also makes clear that while Hasegawa is technically free to marry whomever he desires, his parents may struggle to "emotionally accept" any spouse he doesn't clear with them before the marriage. Cool.
Hasegawa pointed out the letter was largely a joke. In fact, he paid his parents rent even before their resignation.
Still, everyone has to grow up sometime.