Sakurai (right) and Kojima hold the awards they have won recently for their TikTok videos in the hallway of their Tokyo headquarters office of Daikyo Security Co. The CEO and general manager at a tiny Japanese security company are among the nation’s biggest TikTok stars, drawing 2.7 million followers and 54 million likes, and honoured with awards as a trend-setter on the app. — AP
TOKYO: They’re your run-of-the-mill Japanese “salarymen”, hard-working, pot-bellied, friendly and, well, rather regular.
But the chief executive and general manager at a tiny Japanese security company are among the nation’s biggest TikTok stars, drawing 2.7 million followers and 54 million likes, and honoured with awards as a trend-setter on the video-sharing app.
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