A little background.
The salaryman was born in 1931, while the station employee was born in 1946, making them 15 years apart in age.
They first met in 1966, one year after the photo on the right was taken. At the time, the salaryman was 35, and the station employee was just 20.
The salaryman spent his boyhood during World War II. After overcoming the severe job shortage of postwar Japan, he joined an office supplies company at the age of 18 in 1949. Through years of dedication, he rose to a supervisory position.
The station employee, on the other hand, was born after the war. Fascinated by railway stations and uniforms from childhood, he joined the Japanese National Railways after graduating from high school in 1965. After completing his training at the Railway Academy, he was assigned to his first station. When they met, he had been there for less than a year and was still a newly assigned station employee.