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By Shinya Arai

ISBN-10: 0520071425

ISBN-13: 9780520071421

ISBN-10: 0585101450

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Acknowledging no god however the company strong, the shoshamen--high-powered execs inside of Japan's built-in buying and selling companies--serve because the unrelenting cogs of an monetary computing device. Or do they?Shoshaman takes us contained in the global of Japan Inc. to discover the day-by-day lives of the folk who inhabit it. Written by way of a senior govt in an important sogo shosha, this soaking up novel finds, as no textbook can, the recommendations required to win the race to the head. It additionally makes painfully transparent the moral and mental offerings that one of these race calls for. the forged of characters is as different because the company global itself, from the dedicated Ojima, who has been omitted by means of the corporate, to the lively Masako, who moves out on her personal. The hero, Nakasato Michio, unearths that the line to good fortune is lengthy and dangerous, as he attempts to meet his objectives whereas last trustworthy to his values.First released as Kigyoka sarariman in 1986 and made right into a prize-winning tv miniseries in 1988, the ebook has been acclaimed in Japan for the verisimilitude of its characters and occasions. It bargains a transparent knowing of what it's like--in human terms--to live to tell the tale and maybe be successful in the confines of the japanese company.

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Since 1983 he has been known as Mr. " The order of executive novelists is growing in both number and visibility. In 1979, the Nikkei (Nihon Keizai) Newspaper Company ran a contest for keizai shosetsu ("economic fiction") between 350 and 500 pages in length. This elicited manuscripts from 138 amateur writers, most of them businessmen in their forties and fifties. The first prize of three million yen went to Post-bankruptcy Procedures by Tsuru Rokuhei (b. 1924), a director of Mitsui Bank. In their second contest two years later, the winner, this time out of 103 submissions, was Young Executive by Yagi Daisuke (b.

He thought he was honorable enough but never believed that marriage with any particular woman would fulfill his life's dream. On the contrary, he'd even thought that he might be better off staying single to pursue his dream. He found it hard to picture himself as satisfied as Ojima claimed to be by a job with Nissei and marriage to a woman he loved. Three years after their talk in the training camp, he got an invitation to Ojima's wedding. While Nakasato served in the sober Accounting Department, Ojima had been exultant in Iron and Steel Import and Export, the glamorous mainstay of Nissei's primary operations.

Thereafter Akimoto published business novels such as Keidanren (1977), about a colorful executive vice chairman of the Federation of Economic Organizations and the Federation's power politics. Since 1983 he has been known as Mr. " The order of executive novelists is growing in both number and visibility. In 1979, the Nikkei (Nihon Keizai) Newspaper Company ran a contest for keizai shosetsu ("economic fiction") between 350 and 500 pages in length. This elicited manuscripts from 138 amateur writers, most of them businessmen in their forties and fifties.

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