首页
登录
职称英语
Revenge of the Office LadyWith the Japanese economy in depression, why ar
Revenge of the Office LadyWith the Japanese economy in depression, why ar
游客
2024-03-04
22
管理
问题
Revenge of the Office Lady
With the Japanese economy in depression, why are the fashionable streets of Tokyo’s Shibuya district crowded with women weighed down with shopping? Why are cafes and cinemas bursting at the seams? Shinsaibashi, in the heart of Osaka, is the same -- and the phenomenon is repeated, if to a lesser degree, along the streets of a dozen other dries.
Call it the revenge of the office lady. Used and abused in the office as tea ladies, these college graduates are expected to do low-level chores until they marry and quit. There are some 10 million unmarried women between 15 and 29 in Japan, many of them working in offices. Their pay, around $1,800 a month for a typical 25-year-old goes a long way. Unlike young men, most live at home, pay little towards their keep and tend not to own cars. Their younger sisters at college and school have plenty of money, too, thanks to Japan’s vast part-rime job market. The Hakuhodo Institute of Life and Living in Tokyo reckons there are 3 million young women living within an hour of Shibuya’s shops, ready to catch the latest fashion. If the rest of Japan were to spend as much as young females do, its economic woes (不幸) would be over.
They have plenty of time (again, unlike young men) to read consumer magazines and watch television. Women’s magazines in Japan are twice as fat as American or European ones. They are packed with information on where to get almost everything from cheap designer trousers to the latest haircut. No surprise that young Japanese women are among the world’s smartest consumers.
Department stores love them. No one is spending, except young women. Sales of women’s clothes, accessories, shoes, handbags and cosmetics have remained good. When Takashimaya, a chain of exclusive department stores, opened a new branch in central Tokyo, half the sales area was given over to women’s goods, against the usual 40%.
Japan’s hard times are making the office ladies even more imaginative. They have been quick to check out the discount stores that are sprouting across the countries as a result of deregulation. Luxury labels are fine, but they young women demand real value. Foreign exporters that taken them for granted had better watch out.
选项
答案
buying a lot in the economic depression
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3503725.html
相关试题推荐
[originaltext]FiguresfromtheLaborDepartmentshowedtheUSeconomycreat
[originaltext]FiguresfromtheLaborDepartmentshowedtheUSeconomycreat
[originaltext]Perhapsyouworkatanofficewithastateddresscode,oryo
SavethePostOfficeFromExtinc
SavethePostOfficeFromExtinc
SavethePostOfficeFromExtinc
SavethePostOfficeFromExtinc
SavethePostOfficeFromExtinc
SavethePostOfficeFromExtinc
Whentheleadersoftheneweconomysaythey’renotinitforthemoney,tha
随机试题
______hispoorrecordinschool,theboardthinksthatheshouldstudyhard.A、In
[originaltext]W:Canyoudropbythelabforaminute?Ihavesomeexperiments
TheEuropeanUnionhadnotapprovedanumberofgeneticallymodifiedcropsu
Morethantenpercentofmotorwaydeathsarecausedbydriversfallingsleep
按经典假设,线性回归模型中的解释变量应是非随机变量,且()。A.与随机误差项不
甲手表厂(增值税一般纳税人)2019年4月委托乙加工厂加工200只高档手表,甲手
土的比重试验方法有()。A.比重瓶法 B.浮力法 C.浮称法 D.虹吸筒
加强与证券业、保险业等行业协会的沟通和协调,体现了中国银行业协会的()职责。A
王先生委托×房地产经纪公司购买一套商品住房供自己居住。该房地产经纪公司的执业房地
从所给的四个选项中,选择最合适的一个填入问号处,使之呈现一定的规律性: A.如
最新回复
(
0
)