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Mr. Hajime, middle aged, is a middle manager. He is respected throughout his office for being able to hold his liquor and carry

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问题     Mr. Hajime, middle aged, is a middle manager. He is respected throughout his office for being able to hold his liquor and carry a tune when his turn to sing karaoke comes, surrounded by screaming office workers.
    Office parties, or "enkai" in Japanese, have a habit of creating the unexpected.
    For office workers, the end of year party, or bonenkai, is when the real fireworks go off, says Lauren Harris at the embassy of Japan in the UK, "It’s important for companies to see out the old year and welcome the new."
    A comforting notion still feeds Western minds that the Japanese are work-crazied, too uptight to know the really smart moves at party time.
    So why the need for a wild party to bid farewell to the year?
    "The office party is typically when workers give their personalities an annual airing," says Harris.
    Moto Suzuki, sales manager at Asahi brewery, is convinced the Japan’s unyielding work culture brings things to a head at the bonenkai.
    "You’re lucky in Britain, there’s far more emphasis in the office on finding the right balance between work, family and having a good time," he says.
    It is a strange feature of the Japanese office party scene that nobody talks later about what went on—any gossip lives and dies in the restaurant or in front of the karaoke console. So regardless of whether you crash headlong through a rice-paper screen or sumo wrestle the boss you’ll never hear about it again.
    "It defeats the purpose of the party," says Harris. "You don’t know anybody better afterwards."
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答案He can hold his liquor and carry a tune.
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