By Niall Murtagh
ISBN-10: 1861977891
ISBN-13: 9781861977892
Why on the earth could a person hand over a lifestyles at the open highway for the routine of an unlimited eastern conglomerate? And is it particularly so diversified in Japan from all over else? Niall Murtagh spent years as an international vacationer - hitchhiking to Istanbul, bussing to Kathmandu and crossing the Atlantic in a home-built yacht. In 1986 he closed the door on his adventurous lifestyles and settled down in Japan, finally becoming a member of Mitsubishi as a Salaryman - a guy in a glittery swimsuit with a sparkly attache case in a conglomerate with 100,000 staff. And what occurs if you happen to surrender the Salaryman existence? The publication follows lifestyles after the company, giving clean views at the nature of eastern company tradition and the issues confronted via outsiders in Japan.
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I take a cheap flight to Los Angeles, get a bus to Mexico and slowly head southward. The Spanish I speak is a mix of French verbs, English nouns and Japanese adverbs. The French and English easily pass for Spanish because they’re practically the same language, but the Japanese doesn’t come across well and the Mexicans give me funny looks – what sort of mixed-up gringo is he and what sort of gringo takes buses from Los Angeles to Tegucigalpa? The buses become trucks in Nicaragua, rumbling past blown-up bridges and bullet-riddled police posts, but Reagan’s war is over, the Americans are gone and it’s not dangerous anymore.
I have to, eh, clear up some things. – It is unusual for new recruits from the local universities not to start at the beginning of April. But if you have to clear up some things then, yes, it can be arranged. How long do you need? A week? Two weeks? – Well, I was hoping for a couple of … months. – A couple of months? Okay. We can make an exception. Till June? – It’s very humid in June and almost summertime. A bit after June. – July? – Or August. – Okay. August. – How about September? 32 – Well … Okay, then.
You know Yamazaki Corp who make the machine tools, don’t you? Ando-C says. They want to change the research topic. Automated production lines – that’s all they want, and it’s not what we want. – Why did they change? says Shinsetsu-GR. – Because Toyota changed their plans, that’s why. The Toyota manager and the Yamazaki guy were students together in Osaka years ago. They’re old friends. That’s the reason Toyota joined in the first place. I don’t know what we should do now. – Let’s talk to our department manager, says Shinsetsu-GR.
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