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A Latino journalist explores a Japanese scene that could fit in Latin America; one in which workers find relief through ...

TOKYOTOKYO — They’re your run-of-the-mill “salarymen,” as company workers in Japan are called — hard-working, friendly and, well, rather regular. But the chief executive and general manager at a tiny ...

There are only so many hours in the day, and in Japan it’s not all that unusual for salarymen to end up spending half of them or more at the office. But hey, in Japan responsibility to the group ...

TOKYO (AFP) – Japan's army of dark-suited salarymen are scraping by on a monthly allowance from their wives that is less than half what they got in the 1980s bubble years, a survey has shown. Despite ...

Think of cheerleaders, and the usual image that springs to mind is that of pom-pom-wielding young women pulling off acrobatic flips and spins in colourful costumes. However, in Japan, an entirely new ...

There are only so many hours in the day, and in Japan it’s not all that unusual for salarymen to end up spending half of them or more at the office. But hey, in Japan responsibility to the group ...

Daikyo Security Chief Executive Daisuke Sakurai, right, and General Manager Tomohiko Kojima hold the awards they have won recently for their Tik Tok videos in the hallway of their Tokyo headquarters ...

Daikyo Security Chief Executive Daisuke Sakurai, right, and General Manager Tomohiko Kojima hold the awards they have won recently for their Tik Tok videos in the hallway of their Tokyo headquarters ...