Word: chokazoku
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...start an important part of their job: the long nightly round of Teletype consultations with headquarters in Tokyo, where the clocks read 9 a.m. and it is the next day. Small wonder that the folks back at the home offices call their 3,900 business representatives in New York chokazoku-or "the overtime tribe...
...chokazoku tend to be clannish. Two-thirds of them reside in Queens, many in the Flushing neighborhood. About 150 bachelors have crowded into a building on Manhattan's West 103rd Street, where they rent rooms for $6 a day. For relaxation, the Japanese gather in the Nippon Club, which is across the street from Carnegie Hall, or in East Side piano bars for a drinking bout to let off tension. On Sundays, those who do not play golf with American business contacts play golf with each other, jabbering happily about business in Japanese. Says one of the chokazoku...
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