<figure id="attachment_470312" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-470312" style="width: 1279px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="e13e70c3"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2026/06/7d77d8ffdb09a99a5d05f2e642f46a77.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-470312" class="wp-caption-text">He was nicknamed &#8220;NEET&#8221; and had debts of 15 million yen. How did a young man in his 20s, who was at rock bottom, turn his life around by earning 3,770,000 yen a day with &#8220;note&#8221;?</figcaption></figure>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> When I was in junior high school and high school, my nickname was &#8220;NEET. He was completely wiped out in his job search and suffered from depression. How did a young man in his early 20s, who had reached the bottom of his life, recover from the depths of despair?</span><span class="strongInContent"> </span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> The film traces his real-life struggles and recovery from the depths of despair, as he confronts his character of not fitting in with the organization and sells 37.71 million yen a day on the digital content sales platform &#8220;note&#8221;.</span></p>
<h3><span class="strongInContent"> His nickname in junior high school was &#8220;NEET.</span></h3>
<p> Racco says that it was not until he became a university student that he began to consider &#8220;a path other than working for a company. However, a glimpse of this &#8220;glimpse&#8221; can be seen in his junior high school days.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> In junior high and high school, my nickname was &#8220;NEET. I wasn&#8217;t bullied, but I always said that I didn&#8217;t want to work, so I figured that made me a NEET (laughs).</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> (Laughs.) My father was working alone overseas, and whenever he came back to Japan and I saw him, I would tell him that I didn&#8217;t want to work anymore and that I wanted to quit my job. Just kidding. I think that influenced him to imprint on my mind as a child that working is boring and that life is over once you become a company employee.</span></p>
<p> As a college student, he started a part-time job at a grocery store, but he was not very good at it and could not finish his training even after six months. Realizing that he could not fit into an organization where he had to work with others, he set up his own business and set out on his own to become independent.</p>
<h3><span class="strongInContent"> With 15 million in debt, he hit rock bottom in life.</span></h3>
<p> He was scammed by an investment company that he thought would be a quick way to make money, and he ended up with a debt of about 15 million yen.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> I told my friends that I was going to be an entrepreneur,&#8221; he said. Because of this, I almost stopped going to college and developed depression. I knew that the financial pressure of debt was really taking a heavy mental toll on me. The stress even made my hair thin, even though I was in my early 20s. None of my relatives had thin hair.</span></p>
<p> Once he gave up on being an entrepreneur, he tried to find a job, but his job search was annihilated due to mental and physical discomfort and impatience. During an interview, he mistakenly thought the company&#8217;s &#8220;plain clothes&#8221; requirement meant &#8220;casual clothes,&#8221; and ended up wearing his regular clothes.</p>
<figure id="attachment_470313" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-470313" style="width: 768px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="ac318216"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2026/06/65b132fda3566aed3228d67ca0f9899f.png" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-470313" class="wp-caption-text"> Mr. Racco holed up in the mountains in the countryside of Poland, where he has moved.</figcaption></figure>
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<h3><span class="strongInContent"> Sales of 3,770,000 yen per day on &#8220;note</span><span class="strongInContent"> </span></h3>
<p> In the midst of such total darkness, he found a ray of light in &#8220;note.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> I found out that an acquaintance of mine was making money with &#8220;note,&#8221; so I did some research of my own. I found that you can start with zero initial cost, and as long as you have a computer and a smartphone, you can write and sell articles from anywhere. The profit margin is therefore unusually high. For someone like me, who was in debt and had no original capital, NOTE was the only and strongest option.&#8221;</span><strong style="font-size: 1rem;"> </strong></p>
<p> The first paid article, which he prepared after extensive research, was published and immediately after its release, it sold phenomenally well, selling 3,770,000 yen on the first day alone.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> I couldn&#8217;t understand what was happening for a while,&#8221; he said. But I soon paid off all my debts.&#8221;</span></p>
<h3><span class="strongInContent"> The Key to Success: The Three Great Desires</span><span class="strongInContent"> </span></h3>
<p> Why was Mr. Kikko able to succeed when he was a nobody? It was not because he was self-satisfied with the information he was sending out, but because he gave top priority to what his readers wanted.</p>
<p> According to Racco, there are three major human desires: the desire to reproduce (e.g., love and beauty), the desire for approval (e.g., attention and success on social networking sites), and the desire for money (e.g., earning money).</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> He says, &#8220;With these three desires at the core, I choose genres that exist in the areas related to them&#8230;As you can easily see from my research on social networking sites, the articles and videos with the most readers are almost always in these peripheral areas. From these genres, again, you don&#8217;t have to be good at them, just a little knowledgeable and interested in them.</span></p>
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<p> Mr. Tarakko, who has made a life for himself from a harsh situation of depression and a large amount of debt, has learned from his many failures &#8220;how to turn your life around that anyone can put into practice&#8221; at &#8230;&#8230;. He explains how to input information to become a professional who can attend to readers&#8217; problems from zero expertise, and how to create an environment to overcome psychological hurdles peculiar to human beings such as &#8220;fear of failure&#8221; and &#8220;fear of what others think of me.</p>
<p> A new form of self-realization in the age of AI and specific methods for sustaining action are introduced in detail in <span class="strongInContent">the paid version [FRIDAY Subscription]</span>.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent">▼Rakko</span> Started his own business at the age of 19, but failed to succeed and was left with 15 million yen in debt. She developed depression due to stress, and her job search was annihilated. From there, he found a way to make a living on the digital content sales platform &#8220;Note,&#8221; and through his unique marketing techniques, he set a record by selling 37.71 million yen in 24 hours from the first paid article he published. He has been generating steady revenue since then, with total sales exceeding 200 million yen. 24 years old, he achieved Side FIRE, and has now moved to Poland, where he continues to run his &#8220;note&#8221; business while also developing real businesses such as a restaurant and beauty salon. His hobbies include walking his dog, muscle training, martial arts, learning English, bonfires, and traveling around the world. He is the author of &#8220;note×AI Saikyoku no Sidelineshi&#8221; (KADOKAWA), a book taught by a professional who has made 200 million yen in sales.</p>
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 After working as a money writer, financial planner, and market analyst for a securities company, Matsuoka became independent in 1996. He writes articles on finance and asset management mainly for business and economic magazines. Author of "A Textbook for the First Year of Robo-Advisor Investing" and "Understanding with Rich Illustrations! The book is entitled "Cashless Payments: How to Benefit from Cashless Payments". X (former Twitter)→@1847mattsuu

 Kenji Matsuoka

 An unknown young man who had a debt of 15 million yen due to an investment scam and suffered from depression. This is the story of how a young man who had been in the depths of a depression turned his life around by selling 37,710,000 yen in one day on "note".

A young man who was in debt for 15 million yen and suffering from depression due to an investment scam, sold 37,710,000 yen in “one day.

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