The Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters are a Japanese professional baseball team based in Sapporo, Hokkaidō. Here the team mascot, B·B (Brisky the Bear), practices a chikan maneuver that he normally reserves for crowded trains by going the grope on an unsuspecting cheerleader.

Via Taro at 3yen.

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.

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In some train stations in Japan, oshiya or ‘pushers’ are employed to cram people onto the overcrowded train carriages. They also perform the job of a ‘puller’, pulling off any passengers who try to get on the train too late.

Also check out how John Eales crams a train in Japan Rugby style.

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