Salaryman

Salaryman (Japanese: サラリーマン, sararīman) is a Japanese term for a white-collar worker. The word is derived from English salary + man, and has since entered the English language in its own right. The Japanese term for the contrast term, blue-collar worker, is nikutai-rōdō-sha (肉体労働者　).

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The word carries associations of long working hours, low prestige in the corporate hierarchy, absence of significant sources of income other than salary, wage slavery, and 過労死 (karōshi, or death from overwork).

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Very often however, Japanese people are accustomed to answer, when asked what their job is, as simply being a "salaryman".

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Japanese: When used as an adjective, Japanese refers to anything that originates from Japan. It may refer to more than one article:...

White-collar worker: White-collar workers perform tasks which are less "laborious" yet often more highly paid than blue-collar workers, who do manual work. They are salaried professionals (such as some doctors or lawyers), as well as employees in administrative or clerical positions. In some studies, managers are consi...

English: English in common usage may refer to:...