Japan: Growing number of young workers revive culture of corporate machismo

Summary

In Japan, a new generation of office workers is reviving a bygone corporate culture. Around the world, Gen-Z has garnered a reputation as delicate, even reticent employees. A growing cohort of young Japanese salarymen - and women - are embracing a work culture some are calling "corporate machismo" - a hard-charging, zealous approach to business that some see as the key to the country's post-World War 2 economic boom.