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Japanese Salarywoman Araki Saori refers to a viral image of a Japanese model named Saori Araki, where she is seen with a bob cut, dressed in a grey suit while holding a laptop with her cheeks puffed up in a smile. The image of Saori Araki dressed as a Japanese salarywoman, holding a laptop while puffing up her cheeks to smile, went viral in July 2025. Many internet users quote-tweeted the image to share Which Way Western Man style memes that compared her to western celebrities like Sydney Sweeney, who went viral for her Great Jeans around the same time. Saori Araki is a former member of the J-Pop band "Tokyo Girls Bravo" and currently works as a model and actress in Japan.

Origin

On July 24th, 2025, Saori Araki posted a photo dressed in a grey suit and holding a laptop to her X / Twitter^[1] account @kawausosuki0513. The photo shows her smiling with her cheeks puffed up, and her hair cut to her shoulders. The image was captioned "Good Morning ☀️" in Japanese, and gathered over 40 million views and 100,000 likes in four days. The image was originally taken during a visit to the Japanese design and manufacturing group Takeda.^[2]

Saori Araki also posted a slideshow of her "Japanese salarywoman" outfit to her Instagram^[9] @kawausosuki0513 on July 26th, 2025, gathering over 20,000 likes in two days.

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Several Twitter / X users reacted to the image of Saori Araki in late July 2025. On July 25th, X^[3] user @badchestpain quote-tweeted the image of Saori Araki, joking about getting into a car accident because of her. The post read, "Just wrapped my car around a telephone pole," gathering over 50,000 likes in a day. Instagram^[4] user @moist654 reposted the tweet on July 25th, gathering over 10,000 likes in three days.

On July 26th, X^[5] user @Andr3jH posted an image of Saori Araki dressed as a Japanese salarywoman to show her holding Dr. Ally Louks' "Olfactory Ethics: The Politics of Smell in Modern and Contemporary Prose" PhD Study

On July 27th, X^[6] user @eigenrobot posted an image of Sydney Sweeney alongside Saori Araki, writing, Which Way Western Man. The post gathered over 50,000 likes in a day.

On July 27th, "Japanese salarywoman" Saori Araki^[7] posted another image of her dressed in a suit, this time showing her throwing up a peace sign. The post was quoted by X^[8] user @kpoping6, who tweeted a Bush Learning meme alongside a caption that read, "A second photo has hit the timeline."

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