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Photography on the way home from work

Japan has many beautiful scenery and delicious food, but also many unique cultural phenomena, among which the most curious and surprising unique "landscape" is the "drunk" lying in the street at night! Of course, in other countries, it is normal to get drunk late at night and fall asleep unconsciously in the street, but what is more special in Japan is that most of the unconscious people are men and wear the same clothes!

Ordinary tourists will basically miss this spectacle. After all, who will have nothing to do and go out for a walk in the middle of the night? Locals are naturally accustomed to the above things, and only foreigners who have lived in Japan like Pawel Jaszczuk will be interested in exploring the above strange phenomena. The photos taken by "Pawel Jaszczuk" should be a true portrayal of working men in Japanese entertainment culture!

Theoretically, people who get drunk late at night should be men, women and children, and should wear different clothes. But late-night street drunks in Japan have a unified fashion style: white shirts, suit pants and leather shoes for standard office workers. When a man is drunk, he doesn't care that the clothes and trousers that need to be maintained at ordinary times are dirty, and the habit of loving cleanliness at ordinary times has disappeared! Interestingly, after waking up, they all stumbled home on time!

The posture of Japanese drunkards is naturally very funny and can be described as strange. Some people even sleep to death on the road when riding a bicycle halfway, some people are so drunk that they can sleep standing, and some people even pose in strange postures, which is a bit scary in the late night environment! In addition, most of these wonders appear at 1 until 4 am, and basically disappear at dawn!

"Pawel Jaszczuk" thinks that Japanese alcoholic culture is very unique, crazy and meaningful, which symbolizes the overworked and stressful workplace environment in Japan. He deliberately named this series of photographs "HIGH FASHION", which brought together various unusual and unique sleeping positions of Japanese office workers. The name combined with the content forms a puzzling contemporary black humor.

It is said that the overtime system in Japan is perfect. In addition, in Japanese women's ideology, it is incompetent for a husband to come home from work every day. Therefore, it has gradually become a culture for male office workers to have a cup of "entertainment" after work. Meow, everyone is having a hard time!