The Salaryman's Wife
The Salaryman's Wife

Author: Sujata Massey

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2013-10-01

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 0062325256

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Winner of the Agatha Award. "Sujata Massey blasts her way into fiction with The Salaryman's Wife, a cross-cultural mystery of manners with a decidedly sexy edge."-- Janet Evanonich Japanese-American Rei Shimura is a 27-year-old English teacher living in one of Tokyo's seediest neighborhoods. She doesn't make much money, but she wouldn't go back home to California even if she had a free ticket (which, thanks to her parents, she does.) She's determined to make it on her own. Her independence is threatened however, when a getaway to an ancient castle town is marred by murder. Rei is the first to find the beautiful wife of a high-powered businessman, dead in the snow. Taking charge, as usual, Rei searches for clues by crashing a funeral, posing as a bar-girl, and somehow ending up pursued by police and paparazzi alike. In the meantime, she attempts to piece together a strange, ever-changing puzzle—one that is built on lies and held together by years of sex and deception. The first installment in the Rei Shimura series, The Salaryman's Wife is a riveting tale of death, love, and sex, told in a unique cross-cultural voice.

Re-reading the Salaryman in Japan
Re-reading the Salaryman in Japan

Author: Romit Dasgupta

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0415683289

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This book uses the figure of the salaryman to explore masculinity in Japan by examining the salaryman as a gendered construct, and is one of the first to focus on the men within Japanese corporate culture through a gendered lens. Not only does this add to the emerging literature on masculinity in Japan, but given the important role Japanese corporate culture has played in Japan's emergence as an industrial power, Romit Dasgupta's research offers a new way of looking both at Japanese business culture, and more generally at important changes in Japanese society in recent years.

Blue Eyed Salaryman
Blue Eyed Salaryman

Author: Niall Murtagh

Publisher: Profile Books

Published: 2011-05-26

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1847656889

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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.

The Salaryman
The Salaryman

Author: Michael Howard

Publisher:

Published: 2019-07-02

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9781075931727

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A humorous memoir featuring more than 70 full-color manga illustrations from a Tokyo American who tried and failed to fit into Japanese office culture for almost a decade. The Salaryman is an immigrant's story from a land where there are few immigrants, with even fewer being crazy enough to do what the author did: become a real train-cramming, brow-wiping, late-night overtime-working, passed-out-drunk-on-the-train-ride-home salaryman. A working-man consumer's take on the U.S.-Japan culture gap, the book hums with authenticity, delivering deep middle-class insights between its illustrated punch lines.

Death of a Salaryman
Death of a Salaryman

Author: Fiona Campbell

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2011-02-15

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1407019430

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Kenji Yamada has a critical wife, a hated mother-in-law and what he thinks is a job for life until his fortieth birthday teaches him otherwise. Initially too embarassed to tell his family that he has been fired, Kenji first befriends a travelling salesman with a passion for Elvis before taking up gambling, but his wife's outrage soon brings an end to this and sends him on a roller-coaster of misadventures. Via a bizarre chain of happenstance - including being struck by lightning while wielding a golf club - Kenji somehow finds himself responsible for a weirdly believable game show... Fiona Campbell's novel is a sparkling debut with graphic-novel sharpness, humour and poignancy.

Men and Masculinities in Contemporary Japan
Men and Masculinities in Contemporary Japan

Author: James E. Roberson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-06-29

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1134541627

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This book is the first comprehensive account of the changing role of men and the construction of masculinity in contemporary Japan. The book moves beyond the stereotype of the Japanese white-collar businessman to explore the diversity of identities and experiences that may be found among men in contemporary Japan, including those versions of masculinity which are marginalized and subversive. The book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of contemporary Japanese society and identity.

Salaryman Masculinity
Salaryman Masculinity

Author: Tomoko Hidaka

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 9004183035

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This book of the Japanese hegemonic salaryman masculinity demonstrates the way in which the participants construct their masculinities through their life course. Their narratives reveal their contradictions, doubts, dilemmas, anxieties and resignation behind the fa ade of their confidence and pride.

Salaryman
Salaryman

Author: Meg Pei

Publisher: Penguin Mass Market

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780140178265

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Jun Shimada, the Japanese narrator of this tour de force, is a "salaryman", a corporate climber with a self-effacing dedication to his company. But now the conglomerate has dispatched him--with wife and child reluctantly in tow--to its branch offices in America, where he encounters injustices for which he is utterly unprepared.