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50-531: The magazine debuted in July 1985 as the first " salaryman " magazine to be published by Shueisha, Inc. Business Jump completing with Ultra Jump , Super Jump , etc. was one of its kind in the Jump family of manga magazines. Business Jump readers were typically young, twentysomething business men. BJ was originally a monthly publication, the date of its release was changed to the first Wednesday of every month. For

100-451: A School of Western studies located in one of the mansion houses at Tsukiji by founder Fukuzawa Yukichi . "Shinshu Kan" was the original name of Keio University. Keio University's root is considered to be the Han school for Kokugaku studies, named Shinshu Kan established in 1796. It later changed its name to "Keio Gijuku" in 1868, which originated from the era name "Keio", with "Gijuku" as

150-709: A camera in a female toilet stall on the Mita campus, filming over a thousand videos over 3 months. Keio ranks 53rd in the world in the Times Higher Education's Alma Mater Index. It ranks 34th globally in the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) and 3rd in Asia. Keio is ranked at 58th of the Reuters Top 100 innovative universities worldwide. British Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) company estimates that Keio

200-624: A century, is especially famous because of its importance in Japanese baseball history. The most famous Kei-So baseball game, which was played on October 16, 1943, was made into a movie titled " The Last Game – the Final So-Kei Sen - " in 2008. In October 2016, six male students from Keio Advertisement Society, a long-standing student club known for its organisation of the Miss Keio pageant contest, were investigated for gang rape during

250-445: A club activity. An out-of-court settlement was reached and the students were not prosecuted. In May 2018, another three students were arrested for sexual assaults. In March 2017, a student tennis club was disbanded after a student died of alcohol poisoning during a club activity. Two other Keio students died due to over-drinking in 2012 and 2013. In June 2017, the school's election committee unconventionally selected Haseyama Akira,

300-496: A dark suit, a white shirt, and a simple tie in neutral colors like navy, black, or gray. Dressing in such a manner is not only part of professionalism, but also following the cultural emphasis on group harmony where dress uniformity shows everyone belongs to a team, as opposed to standing out which is often seen as potentially disruptive to this harmony. Companies often have specific dress codes, and employees follow these guidelines as part of their role. While companies often take part in

350-545: A founding member of the university alliance Council on Business & Society . There have been 4 presidents of Japan Medical Association related to this university (2 Alumni and 2 professors). This number is the 2nd largest among Japanese medical schools. Keio is one of 2 Japanese universities which provided a president for the World Medical Association . In 2010 and 2015, Keio University Law School ranked highest among all Japanese universities for

400-409: A gradual decrease in the number of avid mahjong players, and by the 1980s, it became common not to show any interest at it at all. Golf became widely popular during the economic bubble, when golf club passes became useful tools for currying favor with corporate executives. Many mid-level salarymen were pressured into taking up golf to participate in golfing events with their superiors. The collapse of

450-466: A legal history professor who won second place at the general election among teachers and staff, to be the school's new president, breaking a 50-year convention. In late 2019, both the American football team and the cheerleading club suspended club activities for "inappropriate behaviours". In January 2020, it was reported that a former member of the school president's secretarial staff had installed

500-405: A planned annual number of enrolled first-year students in parentheses, are: Keio has fourteen graduate schools. Many professors are associated with both an undergraduate faculty and a graduate school. Keio's Media Centers, with combined holdings of over 4.58 million books and publications, are one of the largest academic information storehouses in the country. Keio University Hospital is one of

550-444: A prestigious university which in turn will lead to recruitment by a major company. Those who do not take this career path are regarded as living with a stigma and less prestige. On the other hand, the word salaryman is sometimes used with derogatory connotation for his total dependence on his employer and lack of individuality. Other popular concepts surrounding salarymen include karōshi , or death from overwork. The word sararīman

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600-426: A reasonable price, without all the frills and facilities of luxury/international class hotels. Business hotels typically do not have banquet halls, conference rooms, swimming pool nor exercise room, although they may have an onsite restaurant offering breakfast and late-night ramen, while some establishments come with an onsen . The prevalence of salarymen in Japanese society has given birth to many depictions by both

650-600: A salary for doing nothing. Salarymen are known for working long hours, sometimes over eighty hours per week. Often, because of his busy work schedule, the salaryman does not have time to raise a family and his work becomes a lifelong commitment. There is also a belief that the "amount of time spent at the workplace correlates to the perceived efficiency of the employee." As a result of this intense work-driven lifestyle, salarymen may be more likely to suffer from mental or physical health problems, including heart failure, or to commit suicide. A salaryman's typical outfit consists of

700-454: A salaryman reaches age 30, they are typically promoted to their first supervisor role (Kacho), overseeing new hires who are younger than them. Traditional Japanese companies do not allow employees to supervise people who are older than themselves due to "respect". At age 40 they would become a department head (Bacho), and between 40 and 50 they would be promoted to senior management (although these posts are still considered middle management, below

750-774: A set salary, but only "white-collar workers in the large bureaucracy of a business firm or government office." The term includes those who work for government (e.g., bureaucrats ) and major companies (e.g., those listed in Nikkei 225 ). Workers in the mizu shōbai (nightlife) and entertainment industries (including actors, singers, musicians, artists) are not included even though their income may be salary based. Similarly, doctors, lawyers, politicians, freelancers and corporate executives (the C-suite, board of directors) are also excluded. Engineers and accountants who have their own firm/practice are not included as well. A typical description of

800-470: A territory of the Japanese Empire since 1895 ) the following year. In 1946, Keio University began accepting female students. In 2006, a paper was published in the research journal Science with an undergraduate as its first listed author. In 1916, Keio was visited by Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore . Another visit in 1922 included physicist Albert Einstein , who presented a special lecture on

850-580: Is Japan's first business school and one of four Japanese institutions holding The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) accreditation. Eduniversal also ranked Keio as the No.1 in Japan (75th in the world). In Eduniversal Keio is one of 3 Japanese schools categorized in "Universal Business schools with major international influence". In 2012, the Keio Business School became

900-705: Is a private research university located in Minato, Tokyo , Japan. It was originally established as a school for Western studies in 1858 in Edo . It was granted university status in 1920, becoming one of the first private universities in the country. The university is one of the members of the Top Global University Project (Top Type), funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology . Keio University

950-593: Is acceptable to pay twice with half in spring and half in autumn, the "entrance fee" must be paid before enrolment. The entrance fee for undergraduate study is 200,000 yen and the one for graduate study is 310,000 yen. In 2008, 9,764 students (about 30% of all students) used either scholarships or loans throughout their studies. Additionally, Keio funds over 3,000 students who receive, on average, scholarships of 300,000 yen. Keio University has ten undergraduate faculties , with each operating independently and offering educational and research activities. The faculties, with

1000-654: Is also one of the member universities of RU11 and APRU , and it is one of two Japanese universities (alongside the University of Tokyo ) to be a member of the World Economic Forum 's Global University Leaders Forum . Keio traces its history to 1858 when Fukuzawa Yukichi , who had studied the Western educational system at Brown University in the United States, started to teach Dutch while he

1050-646: Is considered a failure, not only of him or her, but also of their parents. The life of a salaryman revolves around work. The activities that he or she does outside of his or her working hours typically involve his or her coworkers, which lessens the distance between him or her and work. Due to this expectation, there have been a variety of derogatory names given to salarymen: 社畜 ( shachiku , literally "corporate livestock" in reference to wage slavery ), 会社の犬 ( kaisha no inu or "company's dog"), and 企業戦士 ( kigyou senshi or "corporate soldier"), to ridicule salarymen. Changing social circumstances have greatly diversified

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1100-479: Is often described as a wasei-eigo , a Japanese formation from English loanwords , but it appears instead to be a straight borrowing from the English phrase "salaried man", which predates the Japanese term by nearly a century. The Japanese term saw widespread use by 1930, even before government expansion and militarization drove the growth of white-collar employment. The term does not include all workers who receive

1150-462: Is paid or not. They socialize with colleagues and bosses, including singing karaoke , drinking , and visiting hostess bars . "Salarymen" typically enter a company after graduating from college and stay with that corporation for the duration of their career . In conservative Japanese culture, becoming a salaryman is a typical career choice for young men and women, as parents map out their child's education path in order to make sure they can attend

1200-692: Is ranked the 192nd in QS World University Rankings 2017/18. It is ranked the 45th in QS World University Ranking 2017/18 for Graduate Employability Ranking. In the Asian University Ranking (2015), Quacquarelli Symonds also ranked Keio as 37th in Asia. The Academic Ranking of World Universities (2015), which is compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University , ranks Keio 151-175 in the world and 37 in Asia. According to Thomson Reuters , Keio

1250-560: Is the 10th best research university in Japan, the only private university within the Top 15. Keio has provided 3 presidents of Japanese Economic Association in its 42-year history, and this number is 5th largest. Keio University ranks second in Japan, for the number of alumni holding CEO positions in Fortune Global 500 companies, according to Mines ParisTech: Professional Ranking of World Universities . Keio Business School (KBS)

1300-556: The Greater Tokyo Area . Webometrics (2008) also ranks Keio University as 3rd in Japan, 11th in Asia, and 208th in the world for quantity and quality of web presence and link visibility. According to Keio's financial report, there was an operating revenue of 197 billion yen in 2010. The top three largest incomes were from "tuition and fees", "medical care" and "capital gain", with 49 billion yen, 48 billion yen and 21 billion yen respectively. The number of endowments in 2010

1350-524: The MIT and the French INRIA in hosting the international W3C . As of June 2022, Keio University holds the largest endowment fund among all Japanese universities, with ¥78 billion. This is followed by Waseda University at ¥29 billion, Kyoto University at ¥20 billion and the University of Tokyo at ¥15 billion. Keio University ( 慶應義塾大学 , Keiō Gijuku Daigaku ) was first established in 1858 as

1400-408: The theory of relativity . In 2008, Keio University was visited by Prince Charles . In 2023, Sam Altman provided a lecture on campus. Since the president system was established in 1881, Keio University has had 20 presidents. In 2021, there were 33,469 students at Keio University, with 28,667 undergraduate students and 4,802 graduate students. Although two-thirds of the student body are males,

1450-522: The Bar Exam passage rate. The number of Members in Parliament who graduated from Keio is the 3rd highest in Japan. Nikkei BP has been publishing a ranking system called " Brand rankings of Japanese universities " every year, composed of various indicators relating to the reputation and brand power of Japanese institutions. Keio University was placed 1st in 2014, and ranked 2nd in 2015 and 2016 in

1500-667: The Cool Biz initiative which encourages workers to wear lighter clothing (short-sleeved shirts instead of long ones) during the hot months to reduce air conditioning use, Japanese salarymen still retain a clean and professional look, in contrast to Western business casual which permits khakis or jeans with polo shirts. In Japan, hotel chains created business hotels to cater to salarymen for work-related travel. Similar to economy and limited service hotels in North America, Japanese business hotels provide small but efficient rooms at

1550-470: The Japanese and American media. Some films in Japan about salarymen include Mr. Salaryman , Japanese Salaryman NEO (based on the TV series), and a drama series entitled History of a Salaryman . There is a certain expectation among the middle and upper classes for Japanese people to become salarymen. For many young Japanese men and women, accepting anything less than becoming a salaryman and conforming to its ideal

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1600-429: The article's talk page . Salaryman Salaryman ( サラリーマン , sararīman ) is an originally Japanese word for salaried workers. In Japanese popular culture, it is portrayed as a white-collar worker who shows unwavering loyalty and commitment to his employer, prioritizing work over everything else in their life often at the expense of their family. "Salarymen" are expected to work long hours, whether overtime

1650-805: The early years of the 20th century. In 1913, an American touring team of players from the New York Giants and the Chicago White Sox played an exhibition game against the Keio team. In a 1932 exhibition game, the Keio team beat the University of Michigan team, which was then touring Japan. Keio's baseball team plays in the Tokyo Big6 Baseball League . Traditionally, there has been a strong rivalry between Keio and Waseda University . There are annually many matches between

1700-451: The economic bubble led to the closing of many golf courses, and playing golf with executives has become increasingly rare. However, some current salarymen may have golfing experience from their student days, and golf is still acknowledged as an expensive hobby for salarymen. Extreme pressure on salarymen can lead to death by overwork, or karōshi . Salarymen feel intense pressure to fulfill their duty to support their family because of

1750-538: The gender ratio differs between different majors (e.g. 56% of students are female in the Faculty of Letters, whereas in the School of Medicine, three-quarters of students are men.). There were 1,908 international students on May 1, 2021, with 874 undergraduate students (3.1% of total undergraduate students (=28,667)), 861 graduate students (18.0% of total graduate students (=4,802) ) and 173 other students. China provided

1800-477: The gendered expectations placed on men. According to a Washington Post article, the Japanese government struggled for years to pass a law limiting to the number of hours one can work, and the issue has been prevalent since the 1970s. In 2014, after 30 years of activism, Japan's parliament (the Japanese Diet ) passed a law "promoting countermeasures against karōshi." However, many Japanese still criticize

1850-451: The government and believe there should be some form of punishment for companies that violate work hour laws. Approximately 2,000 annual applications are filed by the families of salarymen that die of karōshi. However, the death toll may be much higher, and "as many as 8,000 of the 30,000 annual suicides each year are thought to be work-related," with "as many as 10,000 non-suicide karōshi deaths per year." Karōshi, literally "overwork death,"

1900-715: The largest general hospitals in Japan, the number of surgeries for carcinoma uteri in 2007 was top and the one for lung cancer was third among all university hospitals. The number of trainee doctors who selected Keio as their first choice training hospital was 30 (33rd) among all Japanese teaching hospitals in 2010. Established in 1920, it has over 1,000 beds, a leading laboratory, and research and medical information divisions. There are eleven campuses . Keio alumni include Japanese prime ministers Shigeru Ishiba (2024–current), Junichiro Koizumi (2001–2006), Ryutaro Hashimoto (1996–1998), and Tsuyoshi Inukai (1931–1932). Dozens of other alumni have been cabinet members and governors in

1950-461: The life of the salaryman outside of work. Though the importance of social drinking has not declined, its image has changed over time from mass partying during the economic bubble to conservative consumption at home after the collapse of the economy during the 1990s. Mahjong was an immensely popular game among the 1960s generation of salarymen, who brought the game into company circles directly from high school and college groups. The 1970s generation saw

2000-403: The most international students with 1,016, followed by South Korea (436), France (66), Taiwan (51), the United States (36), Indonesia (34), and Germany (29). In Japanese universities, student societies are known as "circles". There are over 410 circles at Keio University by estimate, including both official and unofficial circles. The interest of Keio's students in baseball stretches back to

2050-532: The salaryman is a male white-collar employee who typically earns his salary "based on individual abilities rather than on seniority." Companies typically hire the salarymen straight out of high school, and they are expected to stay with the company until retirement, around the ages of 55 or 60. As a reward for their loyalty, companies rarely fire the salarymen (see below for the Madogiwa Zoku or “the window tribe”) except in special "dire" circumstances. Once

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2100-439: The second time, it was changed in 2008 to the 15th. The magazine was discontinued in late 2011, with a final double issue, numbered 21/22, released on October 5. Several ongoing series were folded into a new publication, Grand Jump . This article about an anime or manga magazine is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See tips for writing articles about magazines . Further suggestions might be found on

2150-461: The top executives/directors). They retire between the ages of 55 to 65. Underperforming employees in the over 40 age bracket are sidelined with some of their responsibilities taken away, although they do not formally receive a pay cut nor a demotion (Madogiwa Zoku or “the window tribe”). Haruo Shimada, a professor at Keio University , states that "It's important to treat madogiwa-zoku well, because many young people think about their future in terms of

2200-645: The total amount of assets under management was approximately 109 billion yen in 2010, composed mainly of cash, deposits with banks and marketable securities. At Keio University, tuition fees vary and depends on the course. Social Science & Humanity studies have the lowest fees at approximately 1,110,000 yen per year, with the School of Medicine having the highest fees of around 3,610,000 yen per year. The tuition fees for various graduate schools cost much less than those for undergraduate studies, e.g. 690,000 yen per year for Social Science & Humanities and 1,313,000 yen per year for School of Medicine. Although it

2250-447: The translation of Private school . It moved to its current location in 1871, established a Medical school in 1873, along with the university department of Economics, Law and Literacy studies in 1890. In 1899, Keio sent 6 students to study abroad. In the same year, it also accepted three international students from India, Qing-dynasty China , and Thailand . Eight international students entered from Taiwan (which had technically been

2300-419: The two universities in several sports, such as baseball , rowing , rugby , lacrosse , track and field , American football , association football , aikido , karate , basketball , tennis , swimming , fencing , figure skating , ice hockey , and field hockey . These games are called " Kei–So Sen (慶早戦)" or, more generally, " So–Kei Sen ( 早慶戦 )". The Kei-So baseball rivalry, which dates back more than

2350-407: The way these older people are treated", in line with business orientation where employees are expected to show loyalty to their companies and be shown loyalty in return. In other words, no-longer-productive employees were kept around to raise the morale of productive employees, since the young and productive would be able to look forward to the day in which they, too, could sit by the window and collect

2400-524: Was a guest of the Okudaira family. In 1868 he changed the name of the school to Keio Gijuku and devoted his time to education. While Keio's initial identity was that of a private school of Western studies, it expanded and established its first university faculty in 1890. Keio has approximately 30 Research Centres located on its five main campuses and at other facilities for advanced research in Japan. Keio University Research Institute at SFC (KRIS) has joined

2450-426: Was about 5 billion yen. Keio is known for having one of the largest financial endowments of any Japanese university. On the other hand, the top 3 largest expenses in 2010 were "Compensation and benefits", "Education & Research" and "Investment", with 65 billion yen, 52 billion yen and 33 billion yen respectively. The total asset value in 2010 was about 364 billion yen with an increase of 5 billion yen. In addition,

2500-757: Was first diagnosed as a "circulatory disease brought on by stress" in the late 1970s after the 1973 oil crisis , which took a toll on the post-war reconstruction of Japanese industry. Since then, the number of deaths from overwork has increased, especially at larger and more prestigious companies. In 2002, Kenichi Uchino, a 30-year-old quality-control manager at Toyota , collapsed and died after working over 80 hours unpaid overtime for six months. After this incident, Toyota announced that it would begin monitoring their workers' health and would pay for all of their overtime hours. Women General Keio University Keio University ( 慶應義塾大学 , Keiō Gijuku Daigaku ) , abbreviated as Keio ( 慶應 ) or Keidai ( 慶大 ) ,

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