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They are young, earn little and spend little, and take a keen interest in fashion and personal appearance — meet the "herbivore men" of Japan. Author and pop culture columnist Maki Fukasawa coined the term in 2006 in a series of articles on marketing to a younger generation of Japanese men.
If it feels like big companies are doing more than their fair share of letting employees go these days, that’s not just because mass layoffs at blue chip firms are the ones that make headlines. New research suggests that in times of recession, large employers disproportionately lose workers, while small companies, as a group, fare better