{"id":2534,"date":"2000-10-17T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2000-10-17T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2000\/10\/17\/salaryman-kintaro-article\/"},"modified":"2000-10-17T10:21:00","modified_gmt":"2000-10-17T14:21:00","slug":"salaryman-kintaro-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/salaryman-kintaro-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Salaryman Kintaro Article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/durable\/2000\/10\/16\/p1s4.htm\" target=\"_blank\">The Christian Science Monitor<\/a> has conducted an interview with Salaryman Kintaro manga creator Hiroshi Motomiya and published the results as an article titled &#8220;Dilbert with an attitude: Japan&#8217;s new &#8216;salaryman&#8217;.&#8221;  The article details the growing dissatisfaction of the &#8220;salaryman,&#8221; white-collar for life employment structure that has characterized Japan for decades. Salaryman Kintaro is a best selling manga in Japan right now that has spawned a live-action television drama, Playstation game, and two live-action movies.  Main character Kintaro is viewed as a fantasy hero for Japanese corporate employees because &#8220;He points out a bad thing as bad and a good thing as good&#8221; in a society that does not permit or accept criticism or suggestion from employee to employer.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsservice.com\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Service<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Christian Science Monitor has conducted an interview with Salaryman Kintaro manga creator Hiroshi Motomiya and published the results as an article titled &#8220;Dilbert with an attitude: Japan&#8217;s new &#8216;salaryman&#8217;.&#8221; The article details the growing dissatisfaction of the &#8220;salaryman,&#8221; white-collar for life employment structure that has characterized Japan for decades. Salaryman Kintaro is a best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}