Word: salaryman
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...Salaryman Kintaro series features a former gang leader who takes a desk job, pummels evil rivals, talks trash to his elders and scores with the ladies. Another popular series, Division Chief Kosaku Shima, is more realistic. It follows the evolution of a junior manager into a savvy world beater, as he confronts cost-cutting pressures and political corruption. Similarly, the hero of Shuhei Nozaki: Bank Auditor roots out venality at Blue Sky Bank with his superpower--a keen eye for bad loans...
...just went. We must have met around 6 p.m., in front of the ticket stalls. I used my cell phone to figure out who he was. He was wearing a gray suit. When I first saw him I thought, "Yep. He looks his age. He's a total salaryman...
What could be more idyllic than a day at the beach, especially if you're an overworked salaryman with little leisure time to spare? But the weather can also be unpredictable, the waves petulant and uneven, the flotsam yucky. Now those who don't want to risk a less than perfect holiday can frolic at the Seagaia complex in Miyazaki, on the Japanese island of Kyushu, 930 miles south of Tokyo. The ocean that surges and rolls within it, chlorinated and free of salt, has a clearly defined width of 462 ft. and washes a shoreline 280 ft. long, composed...
...then he meets Sachiko. Her husband is a typical "salaryman," continually absent from home. For a while, the monkish American and the lady regard each other at arm's length. But the couple are soon overtaken by enchantment. "I little ghost," she tells him. "Old Japanese story: ghost visit man many many times, many very happy time together. But man's friends much worry. His face more weak, more pale. Ghost eating his heart." Reflects Iyer: "She could hardly have given more eloquent expression to all my unspoken fears...