Managing Director Shima Kosaku

Hatsushiba Electric president Kiichi Nakazawa, who has been Shima’s mentor since Nakazawa was Shima’s boss in the sales division, transfers Shima to Hatsushiba Trading, the firm’s affiliate, to keep Shima from being involved in a factional power struggle that seems sure to erupt within the company when Nakazawa resigns from his post. Shima starts off as the representative executive director, making a deal with a wine producer in France. He flies between Japan, France and England to find the best wine and to sell cases at the best price possible. As always, Shima gets help from various attractive women – his subordinate Kumiko, with whom he has had a long, ongoing affair; Kumiko’s mother, who has a broad network of rich people around the world; and a mysterious hostess at a cosy Shinjuku bar who knows who’s who in the wine business. (Source: The Star).

Another story from the saga of Salaryman Shima Kousaku of the Hatsushiba Electric Company. This time Kousaku finds himself working at Hatsushiba's Chinese division, and, as usual, nothing is going smoothly. His superiors have different and incompatible ideas, romantic entanglements are complicated, he can't go to the video store without finding a ripoff of the latest Japanese video games, and political protests threaten to severely disrupt Hatsushiba's operations. Through it all, Kousaku keeps his head high and somehow manages to work for the company and retain human dignity.