Made In Japan And Other Japanese Business Novels

Made Japan and Other Japanese “Business Novels’’ in The “business novels’’ in this col- lection provide a tantalizing cross- section of an important literary genre in Japan that has had little exposure in the West. Included is Ikko Shimizu’s “Silver Sanctuary,” in which anonymity is shown to be the essential characteristic of the ideal banker. In addition, three works by Saburo Shiroyama are featured, including “In Los Angeles,” showing the manage- ment difficulties of trading States; a Japanese company in the United “Made in Japan,” which depicts the efforts of Japanese exporters tionalize in the 1950s to interna- Japanese products; and “Kinjo the Corporate Bouncer,” whose title character gives his Ryo Takasugi’s “From Paris,” examines the manipulations and polilast breath to his profession. appointments in Japanese companies. “The Baby Boom Generation,” by Taichi Sakaiya, focuses on the baby boomers trying to adapt to business society; and Takeshi Kaiko’s “Giants and Toys,” tells the story of endless sales competition through the experience of a girl who is hired as an advertising model. tics of staff MADE IN JAPAN AND OTHER JAPANESE “BUSINESS NOVELS” Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2016 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/madeinjapanotherOOprin MADE IN JAPAN AND OTHER JAPANESE "BUSINESS NOVELS" TRANSLATOR AND EDITOR TAMAE K. PRINDLE An M. East Gate Book E. Sharpe, Inc. Armonk, New York London, England An East Gate Book © Copyright 1989 by M. E. Sharpe, Inc. No book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher, M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 80 Business Park Drive, Armonk, New York 10504 All rights reserved. Available in the United Publishers, 3 Henrietta part of this Kingdom and Europe from M. Street, London WC2E 8LU. E. Sharpe, Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Made in Japan and other Japanese business novels edited by p. Tamae K. / translated and Prindle. cm. Translation of 7 Japanese short stories. ISBN 0-87332-529-X 1. Short stories, Japanese— Translations into English. 2. Short English— Translations from Japanese. 3. Business II. Title: enterprises— Fiction. I. Prindle, Tamae K., 1944stories, . Japanese business novels. PL782.E8M34 891 .73 '01 1989 '08— del 9 Printed in the United States of America BB 10 987654321 89-4218 CIP To Peter, Tiffany, Kazan, and Japanese and American businessmen Contents Acknowledgments IX Introduction Tamae K. Prindle xi MADE Saburd Shiroyama 3 IN JAPAN SILVER SANCTUARY Ikko Shimizu 33 KINJO THE CORPORATE BOUNCER Saburd Shiroyama 58 Saburd Shiroyama 91 IN LOS ANGELES Ryo Takasugi 111 THE BABY BOOM GENERATION Taichi Sakaiya 129 GIANTS AND TOYS Takeshi Kaiko 165 FROM PARIS 9 Acknowledgments I