Shoshaman: A Tale of Corporate Japan

Acknowledging no god but the corporate good, the shoshamen--high-powered professionals within Japan’s integrated trading companies-- serve as the unrelenting cogs of an economic machine. Or do they? This book takes the reader inside the world of Japan, Inc. Written by a senior executive in a major sogo shosha, this novel reveals (as no textbook can) the strategies required to win the race to the top. It also makes painfully clear the ethical and psychological choices that such a race demands.