by Joe Six-Pack

Color Illustrations by Joe Six-Pack

A “Tales of Transformation” Story

Three very proud American businessmen have been running a jointly owned company in Tokyo for a few years, openly disdainful of their Japanese co-workers. They strut around the office, pushing their Japanese employees around, and laugh at them behind their backs.

One day they come in to work to find things have changed. The American half of their company has been bought out by their Japanese half, and they’ve removed the men from leadership positions. Now they are given a choice by the managers they used to ridicule: They can take a lesser job or get arrested for violating their work visa and get deported. The difficulty for all of them is that deportation would ruin them. However, the positions they are offered are that of classic Japanese Office Lady jobs.

Not ones to be easily intimidated, or willing to be deported, the men opt for the jobs. Unfortunately, they have no idea how far their new employers are willing to go to make them into the perfect representation of their new positions, or how much their Japanese co-workers want to humiliate them.

From training in Japanese etiquette, to learning the respectful and deferential politeness demanded of an office lady, these men are about to have their lives turned inside out. Worse yet, they aren’t the only three Americans who work there. 

As their bodies start to undergo radical changes that go far beyond cosmetics, it soon becomes clear that they may never see their homeland again. At least not as the men they used to be.

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