The Blue-eyed Salaryman

The Blue-eyed Salaryman
Author: Niall Murtagh
Publisher: Profile Books(GB)
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781861977892

Niall Murtagh spent years as a world traveler—hitchhiking in Istanbul, trekking in Patagonia, crossing the Atlantic in a home-built yacht. In 1986, he closed the door on his life of adventure to settle in Japan. And then, in a breathtaking transition, he joined Mitsubishi as a “Salaryman”—a guy in a shiny suit with a shiny attaché case in a multinational corporation with 100,000 employees. What led to this extraordinary shift of direction, and why, despite the disillusionment, is it so hard to leave? In The Blue-Eyed Salaryman, Murtagh takes the reader behind the scenes of this huge conglomerate. By turn enlightening, astonishing, and hilarious, his book offers a fresh perspective on the nature of Japanese business culture as well as the many hurdles awaiting the outsider.

Blue Eyed Salaryman

Blue Eyed Salaryman
Author: Niall Murtagh
Publisher: Profile Books
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2011-05-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1847656889

Why on earth would anyone give up a life on the open road for the regimen of a vast Japanese conglomerate? And is it really so different in Japan from everywhere else? Niall Murtagh spent years as a world traveller - hitchhiking to Istanbul, bussing to Kathmandu and crossing the Atlantic in a home-built yacht. In 1986 he closed the door on his adventurous life and settled down in Japan, eventually joining Mitsubishi as a Salaryman - a man in a shiny suit with a shiny attache case in a conglomerate with 100,000 employees. And what happens when you give up the Salaryman life? The book follows life after the corporation, giving fresh perspectives on the nature of Japanese business culture and the problems faced by outsiders in Japan.

Saving The Sun

Saving The Sun
Author: Gillian Tett
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2011-12-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1448108233

For more than a decade, Japan's dismal economy - which has bounced from deflationary collapse to fitful recovery and back to collapse - has been the biggest obstacle to economic growth. Why has the world's second largest economy been unable to save itself? Why has a country, whose financial might in the 1980s was the most feared force on the globe, become the sick man of the world economy? Saving the Sun answers these questions and more in the riveting and remarkable story of Long Term Credit Bank, one of the world's most respected financial institutions, and its attempts to transform itself into a Western-style bank and reconcile the cultural gulf that still exists between Japan and the international banking community.'Smart and engaging-it's a riveting tale with important insights into Japan's culture and its sclerotic system.' BusinessWeek'Saving the Sun is not simply about the fate of one Japanese bank. It is about the clash of two visions of finance-and how hard it is to reconcile them.' The Wall Street Journal Europe

I Called Him Necktie

I Called Him Necktie
Author: Milena Michiko Flašar
Publisher: New Vessel Press
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2014-09-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1939931169

Twenty-year-old Taguchi Hiro has spent the last two years of his life living as a hikikomori—a shut-in who never leaves his room and has no human interaction—in his parents’ home in Tokyo. As Hiro tentatively decides to reenter the world, he spends his days observing life around him from a park bench. Gradually he makes friends with Ohara Tetsu, a middle-aged salaryman who has lost his job but can’t bring himself to tell his wife, and shows up every day in a suit and tie to pass the time on a nearby bench. As Hiro and Tetsu cautiously open up to each other, they discover in their sadness a common bond. Regrets and disappointments, as well as hopes and dreams, come to the surface until both find the strength to somehow give a new start to their lives. This beautiful novel is moving, unforgettable, and full of surprises. The reader turns the last page feeling that a small triumph has occurred.

A Man with No Talents

A Man with No Talents
Author: Shirō Ōyama
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780801443756

"San'ya," Tokyo's largest day-laborer quarter and the only one with lodgings, had been Oyama Shiro's home for 12 years when he took up his pen and began writing about his life as a resident of Tokyo's most notorious neighborhood. In this fascinating book, he portrays himself as an outsider both from mainstream society and from his adopted home.

Wrong about Japan

Wrong about Japan
Author: Peter Carey
Publisher: Random House Australia
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1740513258

In 2002, the author travelled to Japan, accompanied by his twelve-year-old son Charley, on a special kind of pilgrimage. In a stunning memoir-cum-travelogue he charts this journey, inspired by Charley's passion for manga and anime.

My Japanese Husband Thinks I'm Crazy

My Japanese Husband Thinks I'm Crazy
Author: Grace Buchele Mineta
Publisher: Texan in Tokyo
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2014-10-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780990773603

"My Japanese Husband Thinks I'm Crazy: The Comic Book" is the autobiographical misadventures of a native Texan freelancer and her Japanese "salaryman" husband: in comic book form. From earthquakes and crowded trains, to hilarious cultural faux pas, this comic explores the joys of living and working abroad, intercultural marriages, and trying to make a decent pot roast on Thanksgiving.

Headhunted to Another World: From Salaryman to Big Four! Vol. 1

Headhunted to Another World: From Salaryman to Big Four! Vol. 1
Author: Muramitsu
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-10-05
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1648276024

An ordinary salaryman is recruited by the Demon King to become one of his Four Heavenly Kings in another world–what could possibly go wrong?! Uchimura Denosuke is your normal, everyday salaryman trying to climb the corporate ladder. But then he’s summoned to a terrifying fantasy world by the Demon Overlord, who offers him a new job—as one of the Heavenly Kings in his army, with full benefits! Uchimura may not have muscles or magic, but he does have an office worker’s skills and savvy. Will they be enough to keep him alive?

Bridging Cultural Barriers

Bridging Cultural Barriers
Author: Peter M. Haller
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2019-08-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3030171302

This book provides readers with a comprehensive guide to other cultures – the often-unfamiliar ways that people from other cultures think, speak and act. As such, it helps readers identify potential and real conflicts, and to take appropriate action so as to build successful relationships. The book draws on the authors’ combined experience from international line management and international projects, as well as teaching seminars and coaching clientele from around the globe. It offers an essential resource for anyone involved in transnational business and cross-border relationships.

The Rough Guide to Japan

The Rough Guide to Japan
Author: Sally McLaren
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 1215
Release: 2014-09-01
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 024101266X

Now available in ePub format. The award-winning Rough Guide to Japan makes the ideal travel companion to one of the world's most unique and dynamic countries. In full color throughout, this opinionated guide is packed with essential information on the latest and best places to sleep, eat, party and shop and includes pointers on etiquette and other cultural niceties. Maps of all the main tourist destinations and easy-to-read color transportation maps of the Tokyo and Osaka train and subway systems help you navigate the major cities. From neon-soaked Tokyo to temple-studded Kyoto and snow-topped Mount Fuji, all of the major travel hotspots are covered in full, and The Rough Guide to Japan also points the way to off-the-beaten-track gems: Soak in a live-volcano hot spring on Kyushu island, go diving in tropical Okinawa, or wind your way through mountain traverses in the Japan Alps. You'll also find a richer understanding of the country through chapters on Japan's history, religions, arts, movies, music, and pressing environmental issues. Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to Japan.