One quick look at Yujun Wakashin, and most of Japan's prim and proper job seekers would probably say he is the last man they want as a role model.

After all, Wakashin, whose dyed shoulder-length hair completes his androgynous har-rock musician look, doesn't exude the air of professional formality they seek to master.

But a crowd of fresh graduates packing a room in a multipurpose studio in Tokyo's Meguro Ward one August evening saw him in a different light.