Publicly Sleeping Stormtrooper

July 1, 2010 by reesan · 6 Comments
Filed under: salarymen 

“The last thing I feel like dealing with today is a Jedi.”

Publicly Sleeping StormtrooperImage source: Kirai

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Tokyo Metro Manners – FAILED – Again!

June 27, 2010 by reesan · 1 Comment
Filed under: fail 

Tasty Miso - Funny Tokyo Metro AdvertisementsTasty Miso’s Funny Tokyo Metro Advertisements

For more morsels of good manner campaign goodness check out Tasty Miso’s alternative versions to the Tokyo Metro “Please Do It At Home” manner posters.

Every year Tokyo Metro runs a “good manner” campaign that describes the type of behaviour that is not tolerated on Tokyo’s subways. Yet every year continues to find perpetrators who blatantly ignore the “good manner” message.

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Publicly Sleeping Salarymen

January 10, 2010 by reesan · 30 Comments
Filed under: alcohol, beer, sake, salarymen, wine 

Salarymen are the Japanese corporate livestock. They are the thousands of faceless, suited, white collar office-workers. Dutiful conformists whose lives revolve entirely around work. They work long hours and when their day is over, they are often found spending their evenings in a local izakaya or karaoke bar plying themselves full of sake or beer or shōchū until the last train.

The following collection features 10 of the best publicly sleeping salarymen photos. Those who made the last train, and those who didn’t.

1. The Suicide Pact

The man in the foreground lies on the yellow navigation stripe used by blind people probably not realising it is for the vision impaired, not the blind drunk. Taken by jhtham in Shibuya at 5.00am on a Saturday morning.

Salaryman sleeping in Japan

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