Japanese 'salarymen' are suffering an additional burden to the economic crisis: chronic halitosis.
As if looming unemployment were not enough to cause sleepless nights for legions of the country's businessmen, they are now falling victim to an unfortunate side effect of work-related stress.
Ichiro Saito, a professor of dentistry at Tsurumi University, said that he has witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of people experiencing "dry mouth" syndrome and he believes that as many as 30 million of his countrymen are now afflicted.
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