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The salarymen are unlikely to stop drinking, but at least now they are more likely to get home safely.

DRUNKEN salarymen tottering home after a night's karaoke are as much a feature of modern Japan as sushi bars and bullet trains.

Businesses won preferential finance and in return offered "salarymen" job guarantees and the dream of a middle-class life.

Tokyo salarymen prefer lighter, sleeker products because space is so scarce in a region with 36 million inhabitants.

Buildings close at a reasonable hour, obliging salarymen to forego hours of masochistic overtime.

Japan seems a good place to investigate this, since salarymen in Tokyo spend much of their free time carousing with each other.

Base salaries are low; salarymen are expected to fill their pay packets by putting in heroic amounts of overtime.

Salarymen shed their jackets and ties; some even worked from home to save fuel.

The club's clientele is diverse, including workaday salarymen, business owners and other men unwinding after work.

Even salarymen take photos of the blossom to send to their girlfriends by mobile phone.

Pictures of naked women, ubiquitous on salarymen's desks in the 1990s, have been removed.

Their slogan: "We won't let fishermen be turned into salarymen. "

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Salarymen shed their jackets and ties;