"Hendrik" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson <ken_nicolson@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Today my wife informed me that her parents want to ask me to be their
> > guarantor for the new flat they plan to move to in the autumn! Can
> > gaigins be guarantors? I suppose there's only one way to find out.
> >
> > I'm honoured to find out I'm their first choice ahead of their local
> > friendly kenkaigiin, I suppose, but I wonder if I'll be called to
> > account if/when the father-in-law spends the rent money on the
> > pachinko or horses.
>
> Hello Ken,
>
> this won't likely answer your question, but i am wondering why grown-ups
> whose children are already grown-ups still need a hoshonin.
>

Because there are dumbass fathers out there (like mine *may he rest in
peace*) and offsprings may not always be willing to back up their every (and
often stupid) transactions.