Word: eri
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Despite such experiments, Japanese firms may find it hard to restore the glory days. That's because today 1 in 3 Japanese workers is part-time; younger employees in particular tend to value mobility over job security. Indeed, during Koyama's Saturday-night drinking session, employee Eri Shimoda confides that his co-workers "feel like family." Yet most of those who attend the party say that, warm and fuzzy sentiment aside, they plan to leave within a few years. "Work is just work," says one of them. No amount of free sake, it seems, can convince today's young salarymen...
...Japanese companies may find it hard to restore the glory days of Japan Inc. That's because today, one in three Japanese works part-time; younger employees in particular tend to value mobility over the security of lifetime employment. Indeed, during Noboru Koyama's Saturday-night drinking session, employee Eri Shimoda confides that his co-workers "feel like family." Yet most of those who attended the party also say that, warm and fuzzy sentiment aside, they plan to leave the cleaning company within a few years. "Work is just work," says one of them. No amount of free sake...
...construction workers, they jumped 50% last year. Prosperity is evident in everything from new Swedish hyper-markets, where parking spots are hard to come by, to the Italian cars rolling around the city's cobblestone streets. "If you want to do something, you have a future here," says Eri Esta, the 33-year-old chairman of a major stevedoring firm at the port. Esta, who graduated from a local business school in 2005, now earns a comfortable salary, takes vacations in Western Europe and the U.S., and often travels to Russia and central Asia to drum up business. Ten years...
...slam dunk. Naho Okada, a 17-year-old student, attended the premiere because Ben Affleck is "such a hottie." But the war scenes made her "uncomfortable," she says. Others were more blunt. "You can't make a film about this subject and not be critical of Japan," says Eri Watanabe, a 23-year-old housewife, "But I think it's pretty egotistical of Disney to make a movie like this and presume it'll be a big hit here...