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Acknowledging no god but the corporate good, the shoshamen--high-powered professionals within Japans integrated trading companies--serve as the unrelenting cogs of an economic machine. Or do they?Shoshaman takes us inside the world of Japan Inc. to explore the daily lives of the people who inhabit it. Written by a senior executive in a major sogo shosha, this absorbing novel reveals, as no textbook can, the strategies required to win the race to the top. It also makes painfully clear the ethical and psychological choices that such a race demands. The cast of characters is as varied as the corporate world itself, from the devoted Ojima, who has been passed over by the company, to the spirited Masako, who strikes out on her own. The hero, Nakasato Michio, finds that the road to success is long and perilous, as he tries to satisfy his ambitions while remaining faithful to his values.First published as Kigyoka sarariman in 1986 and made into a prize-winning television miniseries in 1988, the book has been acclaimed in Japan for the verisimilitude of its characters and situations. It offers a clear understanding of what it is like--in human terms--to survive and perhaps succeed within the confines of the Japanese corporation.

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title:Shoshaman : A Tale of Corporate Japan Voices From Asia ; 3
author:Arai, Shinya.
publisher:University of California Press
isbn10 | asin:0520071425
print isbn13:9780520071421
ebook isbn13:9780585101453
language:English
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publication date:1991
lcc:PL845.R246K5413 1991eb
ddc:895.6/35
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Voices from Asia
1. Of Women, Outcastes, Peasants, and Rebels: A Selection of Bengali Short Stories. Translated and edited by Kalpana Bardhan.
2. Himalayan Voices: An Introduction to Modern Nepali Literature. Translated and edited by Michael James Hutt.
3. Shoshaman: A Tale of Corporate Japan. By Arai Shinya. Translated by Chieko Mulhern.
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Shoshaman
A Tale of Corporate Japan
Arai Shinya
Translated by Chieko Mulhern
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Berkeley Los Angeles Oxford
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University of California Press
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
University of California Press, Ltd.
Oxford, England
Shoshaman: A Tale of Corporate Japan by Arai Shinya Translation by Chieko I. Mulhern Copyright 1991 by Sumitomo Corporation All Rights Reserved
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Arai, Shinya.
[Kigyoka sarariman. English]
Shoshaman: a tale of corporate Japan / Arai Shinya; translated
by Chieko Mulhern.
p. cm. - (Voices from Asia; 3)
Translation of : Kigyoka sarariman.
ISBN 0-520-07141-7. ISBN 0-520-07142-5 (pbk.)
I. Title. II. Series.
PL845.R246K5413 1991
895.6'35dc20Picture 2Picture 3Picture 490-24137
Picture 5Picture 6Picture 7Picture 8Picture 9CIP
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Picture 10
Printed in the United States of America
9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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Contents
INTRODUCTION The Japanese Business Novel
By Chieko Mulhern
vii
PROLOGUE The Intruder
April
1
ONE New York
March
8
TWO The Turning Point
Fifteen Years Ago
60
THREE Black Hair
April
100
FOUR Lost Years
April
131
FIVE Between Entrepreneur and Salaryman
May
168
SIX Our People
Early June
190
EPILOGUE The Insubordinate Loyalist
Late June
214
AFTERWORD
219
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
223

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Introduction
The Japanese Business Novel
By Chieko Mulhern
In Japan, the business novel constitutes a distinct literary genre that boasts an impressive history harking back to feudal times. From the beginning, such novels have not only been marked by critical acclaim but have proved tremendously popular.
Japan's first writer of best-sellers, Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693), was born into an Osaka merchant family and became a superb chronicler of the business world, producing numerous fact-based stories as well as financial advice in fiction form. His 1688 work entitled The Japanese Storehouse; or, the Millionaire's Gospel Modernized, which was translated into English in 1959, offers thirty tales of business successes and failures. One traces the rise of Mitsui, a powerful merchant who was building his fortune with an innovative cash and carry discount in kimono retail along with a money exchange service. Saikaku proved prophetic: three years later, in 1691, Mitsui secured exclusive rights as the shogunate's official broker in bills of exchange, laying the foundation for the powerful Mitsui Group of today.
Two centuries later, when Japan opened its doors to the West, the 1870 Japanese translation of Self Help (1859) by Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) became one of the best-sellers of. the Meiji period (1868-1912). This Victorian collection of success stories inspired a Horatio Alger-type of popular fiction as well as serious literature
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dealing with social ambition and business ethics. A classic example is "The Five-storied Pagoda" (1892), available in translation in
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