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...friend’s posture will straighten, his face will harden, and his voice will drop several pitches. As he begins to outline his points like essay paragraphs—the in-depth history, logic and economics behind the minimum wage—I shrink back and begin to tune out. In my mind, arguments only lead to awkwardness and resentment. So it goes: the conversation soon fizzles...
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...
...This is hardly the first unorthodox tune to make the charts in Japan, but it is the first company anthem. Few teenyboppers would choose to rock out to, say, the theme of Fujitsu Ltd., which exhorts: "We plan on uniting all our new techniques/ Over all the world...
...arrives bearing takeout from Spice, is an extroverted personality who has decided to protect himself from the snow in layers of cashmere sweaters rather than a jacket. He encourages an auditioner stricken with a tickly throat: “Can you carry a tune? You’ll be fine...
...onlookers’ cameras flashed, Ogryzkov quietly tested each bell’s tune for a few seconds by lightly pulling on the attached wires...