Word: salaryman
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When the average Japanese salaryman heads home each evening, the last song he wants to hear on his car radio or television is his corporate anthem, the tune he is compelled to sing at year-end parties or, even worse, while performing morning calisthenics in the factory yard. Pity, therefore, the workers of Yokohama-based Nihon Break Kogyo Co. After a popular midnight variety show, Asahi TV's Tamori Club, played its shaka [anthem], the company was bombarded with feedback from viewers until it finally decided to release the song as a single. It debuted last week...
...best of the breed, Bayside Shakedown. "We have learned a lot about viewer habits from our work in television," says Kameyama. "We give viewers what they want." This summer, he is gambling that what Japanese viewers really want is not Arnold Schwarzenegger or The One but a crime-fighting salaryman who, try as he might, just can't bring himself to litter...
...Many of the 30,000 Japanese who kill themselves every year no longer fit the stereotype of the jobless, middle-aged salaryman. Suicides are on the rise among young men and women and with the shift in demographics comes a new style of self destruction. Youth are using a bizarre Internet aberration?the suicide site?to hook up with desperate soulmates willing to share their bleak journey. In February, two women and a man, all in their 20s, met on a suicide site and killed themselves in a Saitama apartment. Since then there have been seven similar incidents...
...member of a dwindling breed. "In the olden days, the eldest sons of farmers made sake after the harvest," explains Doi, 63. He had followed his father into his vocation straight out of high school. "But my son," he says with a rueful, gap-toothed smile, "he's a salaryman...
...proud member of a dwindling breed. "In the olden days, the eldest sons of farmers made sake after the harvest," explains Doi, 63. Straight out of high school, he followed his father into his vocation. "But my son," he says with a rueful, gap-toothed smile, "he's a salaryman...