Nowadays, hiring a full-time bodyguard from a reliable company with good credentials costs about four or five thousand US dollars a month.
Female bodyguards are two thousand dollars more, and if they can speak Japanese, that's another two thousand dollars.
A salary of nine thousand dollars a month is considered high anywhere, but it doesn't amount to much compared to the safety of their daughter Koizumi Katsuko.
Uncle Sakai can earn that just by munching on a couple of donuts, and it's not even as much as the hotel suite they're staying in.
Koizumi Katsuko is now always accompanied by security personnel when she goes out every day.
They don't even go to the studio every day; they just wait below.
Sometimes they stay in the car, sometimes in the courtyard. Unless Shengzi orders them, they don't speak, as silent as the female robots in "Terminator".
This Lexus was also rented on the bodyguard's suggestion.
