Made in Japan and Other Japanese Business Novels

ISBN-13: 9780873325295 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 200 str.

Tamae K. Prindle;Tamae K. Prindle (Assistant Professor of

Opis

The seven business novels translated in this collection represent a genre in Japan, keizai-shosetsu, that is extremely popular among Japanese businessmen, their wives, students, and other professionals. It is aimed at students and business counterparts in the West.

Spis treści

Made in Japan / Saburao Shiroyama -- Silver sanctuary / Ikkao Shimizu -- Kinjo the corporate bouncer / Saburao Shiroyama -- In Los Angeles / Saburao Shiroyama -- From Paris / Ryao Takasugi -- The baby boom generation / Taichi Sakaiya -- Giants and toys Takeshi Kaikao.

O autorze

Tamae K. Prindle is Oak Professor of East Asian Language and Literature and resident director of AKP (Associated Kyoto Program) at Colby College, USA. Her many publications include Made in Japan and Other Japanese "Business Novels" (1989), Kinj? the Corporate Bouncer and Other Stories from Japanese Business, and Ikk? Shimizu, The Dark Side of Japanese Business: Three ""Industry Novels,"" all of which she translated and introduced.