The Dark Side of Japanese Business - Three Industry Novels

"(The novels) depict Japanese business as nasty and businessmen as villains. As the books sell in large numbers in Japan this is presumably how ordinary Japanese view the driving force of the world's second biggest economy". -- The Economist

List of contents

Foreword by Chalmers Johnson, Translator's Acknowledgments, Translator's Note, SILVER SANCTUARY, THE IBIS CAGE, KEIRETSU

About the author

Ikko Shimizu (Author) ,  Tamae K. Prindle (Author) ,  Gail Johnson (Independent Researcher, USA) (Author) ,  Tamae K. Prindle (Author)

Summary

A collection of "industry novels" by Ikko Shimizu: "Keiretsu" is about an automobile parts manufacturer; "The Ibis Cage" is about geishas; and "Silver Sanctuary" is about bank employees. Each story addresses issues unique to its venue yet universal in the real world of Japanese business.

Product details

• Authors: Gail Johnson, Johnson Gail, Tamae K. Prindle, Prindle Tamae K., Ikko Shimizu, Ikkō Shimizu, Shimizu Ikko
• Assisted by: Tamae K. Prindle (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.1995
• EAN: 9781563246166
• ISBN: 978-1-56324-616-6
• No. of pages: 204
• Weight: 453 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary