Today’s Business Japanese is “Sode no Shita”.

It is literally “Under the sleeves”, meaning “Bribes”or  “Under the table”

In the past Japanese people wore Kimono and hide Bribery under the Kimono sleeves.

The other day some companies’ top management were arrested because they passed bribery to the Tokyo Olympic committee chairman.

It is clearly the worst end of life after climbing up the corporate ladder.