Word: salaryman
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Every time I return to India, the land of my forefathers, from the island where I choose to make my home, Japan, I find myself sounding like a salaryman from Osaka. Why is the 10 a.m. bus still invisible at 10:23? Why do all the people around me insist on going from A to B via P, T and X? Why do those infernal traffic lights, when not failing to impede traffic, flash the word relax? India sometimes seems to exist only to confound the expectations and to explode the tenses of a visitor from abroad. Flying into...
...that would be silly, because the reason companies give away shares in a 401(k) so readily to the average salaryman is because they aren't real shares. You can't turn them into cash until you're 60 (in the meantime not paying taxes on the money they represent), and thus they don't come with the same rights as shares that an outside investor actually pays hard currency for. Neither are they like the gobs of shares that top executives routinely get as part of their agreed-upon compensation (again, it's about competitively luring talent). When Linda...
...tells Kayoko, tonight. Kayoko whips out her cell phone, makes the call, tells her friend Yo-chan about her plan. And that night, some salaryman, who's thinking he's going to get lucky with Kayoko, gets beat up instead, has his wallet stolen, and the next day Kayoko and her friends giggle about it on the bench...
...Other artistic concerns in the Sydney show are more earthbound. Over the past five years, New York City-based Momoyo Torimitsu has sent a battery-operated salaryman robot, "Miyata Jiro," crawling the streets of London, Rio de Janeiro and Sydney. With the artist, dressed as a nurse, presiding, the whole robot tour is videotaped. For Torimitsu, the salaryman is the casualty of an economic war lost last decade, a shattered soul in need of nurturing...
...Just how much are Japanese willing to suffer? Yukinobu Karasawa, a 27-year-old salaryman, mulls over the question as he shops for Koizumi goods?posters, T-shirts, cell-phone straps?at the Tokyo LDP headquarters. "I support his reforms," he says, "but if they begin to hurt me, I might have to reconsider." Then it will be the Prime Minister who feels the pain...