In Japan, a salaryman (サラリーマン, sararīman) is a salaried worker and, more specifically, a Japanese white-collar worker who shows overriding loyalty and commitment to the corporation where he works. Salarymen are ubiquitous in Japan, especially in major cities. From financial planning to health care appliance sales their work might be anything it's any office job. In Japan the working person i.e salarymen are expected to work for long hours regularly, additional overtime, to participate in after-work leisure activities such as singing karaoke, drinking, and visiting hostess bars with officials. Typically, a salaryman after graduating from college enters in a company and stays with that corporation for the duration of his career.

There's an astonishing amount of uniformity in the lives of salarymen across Japan, while one might think that every company and work arrangement is different. A company recruits you straight out of high school or college, and you can expect to stay in that country for your entire career until you retire is the prototypical life of a salaryman. The life of a salaryman will be about currying favor with the higher-ups, working hard, and otherwise being a "team player." Essentially because their ubiquity means that they symbolize Japan's corporate/work culture as a whole, Salarymen are an often-derided and ridiculed group. Companies select from this year's crop of college seniors and recent graduates, during the recruiting season. The teachers, family, friends, and other connections will help you find prospective employers, and you may face rigorous entrance requirements. The personnel department determines job assignments in every march for everyone for the next year.

In a range of positions & divisions, Promising young employees will be given stints so that they get a broad overview of the company's business. At the level of employees and non-managerial executives, the economic model built after the war consisted of recruiting "white-collar workers" straight from university, who would join one of the big Japanese companies and build their careers. With a very low chance of dismissal, the salaryman was granted employment for life, in exchange for giving their complete loyalty to the company, over any other companies, or even their family life. The working hours of salarymen are known to belong, easily reaching 12 hours a day. This is not the only link connecting the salaryman to their employer, as he often comes home by the last train and has just enough energy to go to bed before returning to the office early the next morning, this sociability, found at the bottom of a glass of alcohol, has a huge impact on the salaryman's family and social life outside work.

The salaryman in Japan is seen as a mindless soldier with a bland personality, nonexistent outside his professional circle. Particularly, this negative image developed from the bursting of the housing bubble and the so-called "lost decade" of the 1990s, during which becoming a salaryman looked far less appealing to the younger generation, who began to question the system and look for alternative ways to live and work. The "sararymaan" mentality is often a frustrating cultural barrier, For Westerners who work with Japan on a regular basis. For low-level employees, some offer corporate dormitories, an in-house doctor's office, re-imbursed business expenses, and/or a pension. For salaryman life is not easy. To see salarymen passed out on trains late at night, or vomiting in the streets after a night of drinking is pretty common. When Japanese guys were obsessed with golf, in the 80s, a huge number of salarymen joined expensive country clubs and bought expensive golf clubs in the hopes of spending time with the bosses. In a Japanese corporation, There are a few Westerners who manage to move to Japan

and function, but just as many ends up feeling stifled and disheartened in that sort of work environment. Encourages "thinking outside the box" or any real expression of individuality is not the one. Surrounding salarymen, other popular notions include karōshi or death from overwork. Becoming a salaryman in Japanese conservative culture is the expected career choice for young men and those who do not take this career path are regarded as living with stigma and less prestige. In Japanese society, the prevalence of salarymen has given birth to many depictions by both the Japanese and American media. Accepting anything less than becoming a salaryman and conforming to its ideal is considered a failure for many young Japanese men, not only of him but of his parents.