Silk and Insight

This is a tale based on the strike which took place in the mid-1950s at Omi Kenshi, a silk manufacturer not far from Tokyo. The events described reflect the management / labour tensions of the period and is a piece of social commentary on the transformation of Japanese business.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Komazawa Zenjir?'s Artistic Interest; Chapter 2 Komazawa Zenjir?'s Enterprise; Chapter 3 Komazawa Zenjir?'s Award and Penalty; Chapter 4 Komazawa Zenjir?'s Family; Chapter 5 Komazawa Zenjir?'s Trip Overseas; Chapter 6 Komazawa Zenjir?'s Bust; Chapter 7 Komazawa Zenjir?'s Return to Japan; Chapter 8 Komazawa Zenjir?'s Fury; Chapter 9 Komazawa Zenjir?'s Dialogue; Chapter 10 Komazawa Zenjir?'s Greatness;

About the author

Mishima Yukio, Frank Gibney, Hiroaki Sato

Product details

• Authors: Frank Gibney, Gibney Frank, Yukio Mishima, Hiro Sato, Sato Hiro
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.1998
• EAN: 9780765603005
• ISBN: 978-0-7656-0300-5
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 430 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary