The term ’salaryman’ refers to a (usually Japanese) businessman who must work long hours for a corporation, often giving up his youthful dreams of induviduality.

The average salaryman has a depressingly predictable schedule. Every morning he knots his silken noose, jostles his way through a packed subway car and finally arrives at his nondescript office–where he must literally and figuratively bow to his superiors.

Artist Momoyo Torimitsu created a life sized salaryman to draw attention to this depressing part of Japanese business culture. The robot crawls along, cowed but not defeated, toward a goal that only he can guess at. He is sustained by nothing but his willpower and an occasional battery inserted into his buttocks.

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