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Tragicomical Life Of The Japanese Businessmen That I Captured While Traveling In Japan
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My name is David Tesinsky. When I was visiting Japan I made series of images inspired by Japanese businessmen. I named it after my favorite band's song: Kraftwerk: "The Man-Machine". I found it fitting because the Japanese businessmen are a lot like the robots.
For years they would go out drinking with colleagues and clients, returning home drunk at 2 am before rising at dawn to head back to the office. Sometimes they just sleep in the streets because they cannot afford a taxi as they are only the sheep of the huge corporates. They work daily 14 hours or even more.
They are walking in the streets like ghosts self centered deeply focused at their own career that isn't very bright but their visions are different. "Only 5 more years and I will get to the higher position in this neverending pyramid".
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Sleeping In The Streets After Drinking With Colleagues Or Clients
Subway Mood
Subway
Stress Relief
Night Out
"... and then the boss walked in and saw me sleeping for the 3rd time this month, and he went off like a Dragon on New Years nightnwith about 50 fire crackers up its backside. He was calling me names of things I've never even heard of before. You shudda been there. It was over the top classic Godzilla vs. the Lilliputians, but I'm still working there. Can you believe it???
After Night Out
Many Japanese Doesn't Have Time For A Relationship Because Of Their Career
Yes indeed. There is even a crisis in Japan of people who are no longer interested in getting married, having children or having sex. Yes, sex... Their way of living practically turns them off.
Self Centred Style
Subway
Mirror View
This exemplifies the shortcomings of Japanese society. Work profession is "Ichiban", and the family is last. Even drinking, and carousing, comes before their married life. In fact, their activities cause them to be less productive at work, because they spend too much time there, and don't get proper sleep. Its lose-lose for everyone, but mostly for the wives. No wonder they would love to have a good man in their life. 😞
The drinking part is often a part of their work. You're kinda forced by societal norms to go drink with your bosses and colleagues, it's obligatory.
Having a drink; not to get DRUNK.
As a Japanese person I would like to comment and make sure people understand that this does not describe all of Japanese working conditions. In fact, many women in Japan do marry "good" men because some women enjoy being housewives. Growing up I visited many friends houses with a working father and housewife household and it was always a good atmosphere. The wife respects the husband in the sense that he is the only person who obtains money, and in turn the husband respects that the wife manages everything in the household besides money (taking care of children, finances, groceries, cooking, cleaning) I think that in the end the workload is equal between husband and wife. There are also stay at home dads in some cases so it's not that women are forced into this sort of arrangement like what some people are assuming. In addition, I think that all societies have the good and bad. Does the U.S. really promote productivity and family when the divorce rate is close to 50 percent?
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/28/national/social-issues/house-husbands-gaining-acceptance-japan-gender-stereotypes-ease/#.WaUWh8jXfCQ
Wow. That is quite unsettling and kind of sad. Go to work, get out after half a day, then pass out in street after drinking booze with colleagues, and again the same from the start ... no wonder that there is so high suicide rate in Japan. This is no life.
Get out after half a day? More like... After the whole day.
That statement of work-sleep-repeat could be applied to most countries.
But without the mandatory bonus time with people you should tolerate durring workhours.
Usually they only go out and drink on friday nights. They can't sustain an "every day" life of drinking.
Some of those are kinda sad. :(
This exemplifies the shortcomings of Japanese society. Work profession is "Ichiban", and the family is last. Even drinking, and carousing, comes before their married life. In fact, their activities cause them to be less productive at work, because they spend too much time there, and don't get proper sleep. Its lose-lose for everyone, but mostly for the wives. No wonder they would love to have a good man in their life. 😞
The drinking part is often a part of their work. You're kinda forced by societal norms to go drink with your bosses and colleagues, it's obligatory.
Having a drink; not to get DRUNK.
As a Japanese person I would like to comment and make sure people understand that this does not describe all of Japanese working conditions. In fact, many women in Japan do marry "good" men because some women enjoy being housewives. Growing up I visited many friends houses with a working father and housewife household and it was always a good atmosphere. The wife respects the husband in the sense that he is the only person who obtains money, and in turn the husband respects that the wife manages everything in the household besides money (taking care of children, finances, groceries, cooking, cleaning) I think that in the end the workload is equal between husband and wife. There are also stay at home dads in some cases so it's not that women are forced into this sort of arrangement like what some people are assuming. In addition, I think that all societies have the good and bad. Does the U.S. really promote productivity and family when the divorce rate is close to 50 percent?
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/28/national/social-issues/house-husbands-gaining-acceptance-japan-gender-stereotypes-ease/#.WaUWh8jXfCQ
Wow. That is quite unsettling and kind of sad. Go to work, get out after half a day, then pass out in street after drinking booze with colleagues, and again the same from the start ... no wonder that there is so high suicide rate in Japan. This is no life.
Get out after half a day? More like... After the whole day.
That statement of work-sleep-repeat could be applied to most countries.
But without the mandatory bonus time with people you should tolerate durring workhours.
Usually they only go out and drink on friday nights. They can't sustain an "every day" life of drinking.
Some of those are kinda sad. :(