Swarming through Tokyo’s jam-packed rush-hour train stations in their anonymous black suits, it’s the Japanese salarymen’s (or salaried workers’) characteristic diligence, loyalty, obedience to authority and strong emotional ties with fellow coworkers, that allowed corporate Japan to flourish in the best of times. He was the ultimate symbol of the country’s robust economy during the bubble era, but lately he’s become something more of a weary corporate drone – perhaps an apt representative of the state of the Japanese economy now. Going up? Salarymen on the fast track in Tokyo.
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