A very short introduction...

For some strange turn of fate, I am about to embark on the most surreal journey of my short-lived life. As of April 2, 2012, I will become office employee no. 05XXXX in one of the biggest Japanese manufacturing MNC. This is a big deal for me, as I am (a) a foreigner* and (b) a tree-hugger and idealist (yes… I’m that kind of person). So given my background (all the way human rights!), no one is too sure as to what made them hire me in their ‘Simultaneous Recruiting of New Graduates’ programme. Probably nothing more than raising their total gaijin employees’ figures shown on their website (a handful, so far).

For my part - as a friend of mine put it - I’ll be a mole keeping track of the wondrously bizarre things that make up the world of a salaryman and try to post them here.

Occasionally, this blog will also become my portable soapbox where I’ll write about human rights in Nippon-land (its pretty bad over here).

* Well, to tell you the truth I am head-to-belly Japanese. But except for the non-existent eyelashes, everything in my appearance cries ‘Gaijin’. And translated into Japanology, I am and will always remain a foreigner to Japan.