Japanese Salarymen Are Sleeping on the Streets of Tokyo — Guess Why?
A glimpse at Japanese corporate culture and the drinking rituals — from the “inside.”
Japan is famous for a lot of beautiful things. Geishas, a famous Golden Temple, and apparently also salarymen in mass-produced, cheap-looking monochromatic suits.
Japanese looks beautiful in every single way.
Until you actually live there.
You see, the corporate culture can be quite shocking. It’s something that I know a little bit about because I’ve lived in Japan since 2016.
“High Fashion”
I came across an old Vice story from around 2018. It’s called “Photos of Japan’s Office Workers During Their 60-Hour Weeks.”
The story is about a somewhat eccentric collection of work by a Polish photographer, Pawel Jaszcuzk. The work is ironically called High Fashion.
The same story was also covered by Business Insider here, in slightly more detail: Japanese Businessmen Sleeping on Streets Capture a Culture of Overwork (businessinsider.com)
Jaszcuzk did something quite interesting (but potentially also a little bit creepy). He stalked the streets of Tokyo and took these photos of sleeping…
